My daughter sent me this today, does anyone have patients who do anthing
as extraordinary as this or am I naive to be amazed?
>
> Actual article from the LA Times:
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> "In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only
> trying to retrieve the gerbil," Eric Tomaszewski told bemused doctors in the
> Severe Burns Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital.Tomaszewski, and his homosexual
> partner Andrew "Kiki" Farnum, had been admitted for emergency treatment
> after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. "I pushed a cardboard
> tube up his rectum and slipped Raggot, our gerbil, in" he explained. "As
> usual, Kiki shouted out "Armageddon", my cue that he'd had enough. I tried
> to retrieve Raggot but he wouldn't come out again, so I peered into the
> tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him."
> At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what happened
> next. "The match ignited a pocket of intestinal gas and a flame shot out of
> the tubing, igniting Mr.Tomaszewski's hair and severely burning his face.
> It also set fire to the gerbil's fur and whiskers which in turn ignited a
> larger pocket of gas further up the intestine, propelling the rodent out
> like a cannonball." Tomaszewski suffered second degree burns and a broken
> nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Farnum suffered first and second
> degree
> burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract.
Yomi
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