A Christchurch doctor had to treat a woman after she was partially paralysed by a lovebite from her amorous partner.
Good thing this story comes from New Zealand. If it had happened in the United States some scientist would get a multimillion dollar grant from the Center for Disease Control to study the hickey epidemic afflicting American teens.
Hickey is one of those words you look at and say, "That's a very odd word."
A Christchurch doctor had to treat a woman after she was partially paralysed by a lovebite from her amorous partner.
Dr Teddy Wu, who is currently working in the neurology department at Christchurch Hospital, said he believed it was the first time someone had been hospitalised by a “hickey”.
An article on the case has appeared in the New Zealand Medical Journal. Wu said he saw the woman over a year ago while he was working in Middlemore Hospital in Auckland.
The 44-year-old Maori woman went to the emergency department after experiencing loss of movement in her left arm.
It happened while she was sitting watching television.
The only injury was a lovebite on the right of her neck near an artery.
“Because it was a lovebite there would be a lot of suction. Because of the physical trauma it had made a bit of bruising inside the vessel,” said Wu.”There was a clot in the artery underneath where the hickey was.”
The clot had gone into the woman’s heart and caused a minor stroke that led to the loss of movement, he said.
We’re going to start selling ribbons to support the victims of this heartbreaking epidemic. They’ll be dark purple.
Americans don’t hear much from U.S. Surgeon-General Regina Benjamin, but on Thursday, she issued a news release urging “everyone” to “help make breastfeeding easier.”
Boobs. That’s right, we said boobs.
(Sorry, but we’re trolling for search engine traffic and using the word “boobs” usually brings in lots of hits. But in our defense, it’s appropriate for this story.)
Ahhh, now we remember Regina Benjamin. She's the fat Surgeon-General who said the rest of us need to lose weight.
CNSnews.com has the story:
Americans don’t hear much from U.S. Surgeon-General Regina Benjamin, but on Thursday, she issued a news release urging “everyone” to “help make breastfeeding easier.” She cited the “health benefits” of breastfeeding for baby and mother, and pointed to a study saying that breastfeeding would save billions in health care and other costs…
Everyone? We applaud Surgeon-General Regina Benjamin (although we have to admit we’ve never heard of her) and suggest that this program would prove a lot cheaper and a lot more popular than ObamaCare. Especially if it’s taken to the extremes that Saudi women have taken it in an effort, apparently, to assure the continued good health of Saudi cab drivers.
Please allow us to reprise this story from the IHTM files:
Saudi women plan to turn a controversial fatwa (religious ruling) to their advantage and launch a campaign to achieve their long-standing demand to drive in this conservative kingdom. If the demand is not met, the women threatened to follow through the fatwa which allows them to breastfeed their drivers and turn them into their sons.
We would imagine it's very easy for Saudi women to hail a cab these days
The campaign will be launched under the slogan: “We either be allowed to drive or breastfeed foreigners,” a journalist told Gulf News. Amal Zahid said that their decision follows a fatwa issued by a renowned scholar which said that Saudi women can breastfeed their foreign drivers for them to become their sons.The renowned scholar said Saudi women can breastfeed their foreign drivers for them to be become their sons and brothers to their daughters. Under this relationship, foreign drivers can mix freely with all members of the family without breaking the Islamic rule which does not allow mixing of genders. Breast milk kinship is considered to be as good as a blood relationship in Islam. “A woman can breastfeed a mature man so that he becomes her son. In this way, he can mix with her and her daughters without violating the teachings of Islam,” the scholar said.
If there’s anything that can bring our two cultures together, this may be it.
Let’s just rename it The Cab Driver Health Act of 2011.
Obama tells you what not to smoke, what not to drink, and what not to eat, but is no role model. He smokes, drinks and eats the wrong things.
In another blatant example of the Obama administration’s “Do as I say, not as I do” Policy, the President wants to give the government a central role in determining your diet. We call it butting in where the government doesn’t belong, but health experts call it a new era of activism.
According to the Politico:
The president is filling top posts at Health and Human Services with officials who, in their previous jobs, outlawed trans fats, banned public smoking or required restaurants to provide a calorie count with that slice of banana cream pie.
Even Congress is getting into the act, giving serious consideration to taxing sugary drinks and alcohol to help pay for the overhaul.
To some, it smacks of a “nanny state on steroids” — but for others who fret that America is turning into one big Overeaters Anonymous meeting, Obama’s prescription is like a low-fat dream come true.
“He has expressed more interest in preventing diseases and promoting health than any previous president. It is not a breath of fresh air. It is a tornado,” said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. “That contrast is breathtaking. This is really a rare opportunity to make progress on so many issues.”
So when they tell you what not to smoke, what not to drink, and what not to eat, keep these photos in mind.
Then smoke what you want, drink what you want, eat what you want. And in 2010, vote for what you want.
So when they tell you what not to smoke, what not to drink, and what not to eat, keep these photos in mind.