This postI try not to post anything too disturbing, but here’s something which came through the feed today and caught my eye. If you’re going to be eating anytime soon, come back and read the rest of this post later.
Still around? Here’s a clip from the CNN article:
The prestigious journal [New England Journal of Medicine] details the case of a previously healthy 18-year-old woman who consulted a team of gastrointestinal specialists.
She complained of a five-month history of pain and swelling in her abdomen, vomiting after eating and a 40-pound weight loss.
After a scan of the woman’s abdomen showed a large mass, doctors lowered a scope through her esophagus.
It revealed “a large bezoar occluding nearly the entire stomach,” wrote Drs. Ronald M. Levy and Srinadh Komanduri, gastroenterologists at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.
For the uninitiated, a bezoar is a hairball.
And not just any hairball, folks:
Ten pounds, people. Ten pounds! Egads.
And now back to our normal fare. ~sigh of relief~
