Blisstree » amazing health stories http://www.blisstree.com Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:00:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Man Swallows Spoon http://www.blisstree.com/articles/man-swallows-spoon/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/man-swallows-spoon/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:03:10 +0000 Cherie Burbach http://www.blisstree.com/articles/man-swallows-spoon/ Post from: Blisstree

Man Swallows Spoon

]]> I’m always amazed at some of the things people accidentally swallow or ingest. Such is the case with John Manley who, as CNN reports, swallowed a spoon from Wendy’s. He had two years of suffering with “ill health, coughing, vomiting and pain.” His doctors viewed his lungs with an endoscope (which is basically a small medical camera) and saw that there was a spoon in his lung that had writing on it. After further investigation they found that the spoon said “Wendy’s” on it.

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The man claims that there is no way he could have ingested this, and that it had to be in his food. Not sure how that can happen either, but what an amazing story. I’m also glad he has been able to find some relief after two years of suffering.

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Man Swallows Spoon

]]> http://www.blisstree.com/articles/man-swallows-spoon/feed/ 0 Student Diagnoses Own Disease in Class http://www.blisstree.com/articles/student-diagnoses-own-disease-in-class/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/student-diagnoses-own-disease-in-class/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:29:25 +0000 Cherie Burbach http://www.blisstree.com/?p=93416 Post from: Blisstree

Student Diagnoses Own Disease in Class

]]> How many times do we hear about a doctor who doesn’t listen to us? Or one that doesn’t take the time to figure out what’s really wrong when we tell them our health concerns. I suppose sometimes doctors become immune to hearing patients complain.

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Well Jessica Terry, an 18-year old student from Washington was in her Advanced Placement high school science class and looking at her own tissue slides. Terry had been suffering from terrible stomach pain that “brought her to her knees. The pain, along with diarrhea, vomiting and fever, made her so sick, she lost weight and often had to miss school.”

She took the same tissue that her doctor said was perfectly normal, and examined it under the microscope. She saw “an area of inflamed tissue” which she sent to her doctor, and has now been diagnosed as Crohn’s disease.

The kid found her own disease. The one her doctor’s couldn’t find.

Pretty amazing. Terry will be going to nursing school in fall, and she’s also written a children’s book about Crohn’s disease.

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