Posted on 08/05/2012 4:43:59 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
"Unexpected Swallowing of a Knife" -- that's a grabbier title than most ones you see in medical journals.
The short item, a clinical image in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, explains that a 30-year-old woman with a history of bulimia had been bragging to friends that she no longer had a gag reflex. She put the knife into her mouth and then laughed -- at which point she swallowed the knife.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
OMGosh! How much fun is that? Include me in!
It’s a whole lot of fun. You wouldn’t believe how nerdy some of the boys are ... they’ve memorized *everything*.
Seems like the perfect venue for me to give a rendering of my blues music:
I've Got "The I got caught in a lobster trap Blues"
I was just going fishin’, with a heckuva plan,
When I found out by dumb luck, I’d been caught by The Man.
Said I broke quite a few laws, and some limits as well,
Guess I’m now in a steam pot, and it’s here I shall dwell.
Oh, they caught me red-handed, and they slipped the cuffs on,
Those darn tight rubber handcuffs, sure are almighty strong.
I was free on the water, and now I’m in the soup,
If it weren’t for these handcuffs, I would sure fly the coop.
I got the I got caught in a lobster trap blues.
My face sure turned red when this hit the news!
It’s a heck of a fix.
Wish they’d stop taking pix.
I got the I got caught in a lobster trap blues.
NicknamedBob . . . . . . . . . . . . March 20, 2007
Good thing it’s after lunch; that would have made me hungry.
You doing OK?
I'm hardly ever here anymore, and I miss talking with you.
An NMB blues classic!
And you were there!
Well, no but similar.
Those weapons should give any would-be miscreant paws to consider.
I’m OK. I’ve been fighting high BP and the meds are worse than the disease. (High BP is not really a disease...it’s a symptom that something else is wrong, somewhere in your body!) So I quit taking the meds because I just couldn’t deal with the side-effects, and have begun a diet that’s higher in potassium.
Now, of course, the doctor wants to put me on diuretics. I don’t need diuretics! I don’t want to be dehydrated!
But I’m good. I’ll beat this thing.
I miss you, too!
Give me the same feeling reminiscent of the "new, improved laundry detergent" that somebody's gonna be allergic to. Proactive prayers up.
Morning.
Everybody knows a kitteh like that one.
Caught up w/food processing for the moment (using watermelon in agua fresca and watermelon-banana smoothies), and really scored at the dollar store: “Swimming with Crocodiles” by Will Chaffey!
Related: NnB: Love your blues number. Have you composed the music to go with it?
Score #2: Mr. Sg discovered volunteer muscadine among the watermelon vines. Negation of Score #2: muscadine’s fruit is slimy.
‘Face, please keep us updated.
Have a great day, y’all!
Morning! Good to see you.
;)
Howdy, Ladies!
Another blistering day at Hooterville Junction. At midnight, it had dropped to a cool 104...sweater weather! LOL!
We’re supposed to get up to 111 today, at McCarran, but it’s always hotter, here, so we may see 114. As long as there is a breeze and/or the humidity is down, I don’t mind it at all. Of course, I’m a little different than most folks. :o]
You would have been downright freezing here yesterday, only 77 degrees.
Afternoon, all. I took a few kids (not Frank) to Missionaries of the Poor this morning, because Pat really wanted to go. Then we had lunch at Chick-Fil-A, although we could have eaten at the M.O.P.’s; St. Gabriel’s Church Vietnamese Community brought the food, and it smelled good, but Tom really wanted a milkshake, which I’m told they call a “frappe” up North in strange places like Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Tom and Elen were supposed to help with an Eagle Scout project this afternoon, but it rained. Maybe they can do something next Saturday. Elen needs the community service hours.
Tom is taking an online First Aid course, and then he has to go to the Red Cross office next Thursday for CPR practice. Then, as soon as he turns 16, he can apply to be a lifeguard.
That’s about the time I drag out my winter clothes...77 is almost time for longjohns! LOL!
I don’t do snow at all because I have a tendency to slip and fall. I’ve done it in the winter since I was at least your age. Since then, snow is a four-letter word!
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