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 ...
That’s as good a place as any for it to be. It’s certainly not worth looking for anywhere else.
Maybe aliens came from Outer Space and substituted mint jelly for my brain. Who knows?
(The Shadow knows!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIzDsGyxsQM
Tom recommended this song. I feel obligated to point out that the drummer is keeping time, unlike the drummer from my band ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPd1GIwjRFM
Green things in my refrigerator are usually leaves that were forgotten for far too long. That reminds me, the dragons need more leaves.
Well, whatever I did this morning, I worked up a sweat again. The table is cleaner (it seems to be the “catchall” place) and the garbage has been taken out, the clothes finally folded and put away, and I’m sitting here wishing I had a Restorative!t
It’s 93 out with 30% humidity at the weather station in the middle school next door to us. Do I dare walk to 7/11? I dunno.
You’ve seen our “catchall” surfaces. They get cleaned off fairly often because I lose things ;-). That reminds me, there’s a couple of days’ worth of mail on top of the tv cabinet ...
I took Tom to the Red Cross, but decided not to go to the Sheriff’s office today. Maybe one day next week we can do that, plus the forest reserve at the county Agricultural Center.
I think I’ll go lie down with Kathleen while Elen does dishes, and then I’ll start putting together enchiladas with my rice and bean filling and meat sauce.
I just spoke to my neighbor who runs the local outfitters/lodge. I was right her guest heard them too, unfortunately heard wolves out that night as well.
Hiya, had to go out this morning to get supply’s in the next town. Wow smoke in town and all the way to the summit is thick. Fires all around us, nothing to worry about though.
The elevation at the Summit is 6500ft. Usually a view of the mountains. not today.
Like I said fires all around us but nothing to be worried about, they have them all contained.
I usually eat here, at my desk, just because there are so many things that I do online. The table is seldom clean enough to eat off of! LOL!
At Christmas time, I put up my Nativities (I check for them in thrift stores, and regular stores after Christmas,) and the table is the only surface I have that will hold them all. And I’m always looking for more. Different is good!
Today is not a day for me to eat. I’m staying with liquids, including yogurt, to try and get my stomach to stop and to help lower my BP. The meds he gave me were SO nasty to me!
Sorry, Nully. I just couldn’t read that. I wanted the bare facts.
I couldn’t stop laughing, especially when I put myself in the position of the friend who was trying not to laugh out loud!
Thanks for letting us know you’re OK.
Do you think they were closer than usual to get away from the fires?
Bad news about the fires. I hope they get them under control.
Not to worry, the fires are a usual up here, I will tell you all if a issue. thanks!
Just real smokey.
I recall fires in the mountains around Utah Valley. Any guy over 17 was doing his duty by volunteering to fight the fires.
We lived with it, as I’m sure you do, CO. However, I will keep you in my prayers, and also ask blessings upon the firefighters.
Please, Sweetie, keep us all posted! If something dire happens, you have my permission to use my ping list and ask for prayers and/or volunteers!
Hang tough!
When we lived in San Diego in the early 70s, wildfires in the mountains would sometimes result in ash “snowing” on our neighborhood for days at a time.
Tom has completed his First Aid requirements, so now he’s a certified Emergency First Responder. I think he can take Paramedic training at the Fire Department when he’s 16, if he wants to.
There are some fires around here also.
In Oklahoma, too.
GO TOM!
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