Saturday, 22 January 2011

Health Scare Story Du Jour

From The Daily Mail:

[A] woman was left partially paralysed after a romantic encounter went wrong. In the first reported case of its kind, the 44-year-old from New Zealand suffered a stroke after her amorous partner gave her a love bite. She was driven to hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, after she experienced loss of movement in her left arm after an amorous encounter.

Doctors suspected she had had a small stroke - but could not find any obvious cause. Then they noticed a fading bruise on the right side of her neck - a love bite, also known as a hickey. Underneath the bruise they found the cause of the stroke - damage to a major artery, where a blood clot had formed after the suction of the love bite. The clot had then travelled to the woman's heart, causing the stroke. She then noticed the problem while she was sitting watching television...


So now you know.

4 comments:

Sue said...

Real passion killer! Who was she making love to, Dracula?

JuliaM said...

She noticed it while watching tv? I often have stroke-like symptoms, but I put it down to outrage at what I'm watching...

James Higham said...

I've always felt lovemaking was dangerous. I once knew a certain wife who was wont to use her teeth in a different way and the thought did occur that we place ourselves in the power of another quite often. One chomp ...

Mark Wadsworth said...

S, presumably :-)

JM, stop watching Question Time.

JH, a doctor told me that 'woman on top' is incredibly dangerous, because of risk of willy being snapped.