The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat : And Other Gruesome Medical Tales

At times humorous and at times terrifying, these unusual case studies of seemingly unbelievable injuries and illnesses have one thing in common: they are all entirely true. Dr. Rob Myers’ firsthand medical knowledge allows him to see past thin excuses to uncover the outrageously dangerous conditions that people have gotten themselves into. Pool balls and uncooked spaghetti are removed from locations where they never should have been placed, a drunken crew of neighbors tries to use a lawnmower to trim their hedges with disastrous results, and a high school football player gets into a fight with a vending machine that stole his dollar—no scenario is too strange to appear in this volume of medical maladies. Front Cover......Page 1 Copyright......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 Introduction......Page 8 1. Dragon Tales......Page 10 2. The Remains of the Day......Page 17 3. Stiffed......Page 23 4. Ball Breaker......Page 32 5. The Disappearing Man......Page 39 6. The Santa Syndrome......Page 45 7. Italian Stallion......Page 51 8. PB and Slay......Page 57 9. Buzz Kill......Page 62 10. Breakfast Special......Page 67 11. Friends and Enemas......Page 73 12. Hot Stuff......Page 80 13. Hair Today Gone Tomorrow......Page 88 14. Alien......Page 95 15. The Man Who Lost His Head......Page 100 16. Squish Kebobs......Page 106 17. Eye Spy......Page 112 18. Hands Off......Page 119 19. Vlad the Impaler......Page 127 20. Barbie Doll......Page 135 21. A Cut Above......Page 142 22. Split Second......Page 147 23. The Coke Side of Life......Page 152 24. Man’s Best Friend......Page 158 25. Chicken Little......Page 163 26. Kentucky Woman......Page 170 27. Self-Preservation......Page 177 28. Nylons and Ligatures and Snares — Oh My!......Page 183 29. Screwed......Page 189 30. Fecal Matters......Page 195 31. It’s Only a Flesh Wound......Page 201 32. The Catch of the Day......Page 207 33. Inside Out......Page 212 34. Let’s Get Smashed......Page 217 35. Hitting the Jackpot......Page 222 36. Heat of the Moment......Page 228 37. Steak and Legs......Page 235 38. Food for Thought......Page 241 39. The Nose Knows......Page 247 40. Tractor Attraction......Page 252 41. Entry Wound......Page 257 42. Model Behavior......Page 263 43. Breathe Easy......Page 268 44. Any Way You Slice It......Page 275 45. Trick or Treat......Page 281 46. Broken Hearted......Page 286 47. Gossypiboma......Page 292 48. Named......Page 298 49. Blast from the Past......Page 304 50. The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat......Page 310 Acknowledgments......Page 316 About the Author......Page 317 Back Cover......Page 318 Join Dr. Myers in his quest for unusual case studies as he unravels medical mysteries. • Depressed and lonely, a man decides that pills and alcohol are too gentle an exit. How did he end up in the driver's seat without his head? • Drunken neighbours decide that beautifying the hedges on their property can be easily accomplished without hedge clippers. Removing the handlebars of a lawnmower, they lift the mower and its whirring gas powered blades, and quickly lose their buzz. • A teenager, obsessed with self-stimulation, elects to use uncooked spaghetti during his amorous exploits with disastrous consequences that only a urologist can deal with. • Vending machines are heavy and formidable foes; no match for an angry high school football player who wants his dollar back. • Pool balls are round, smooth, and heavy, qualities that make them very difficult to remove from locations they should never have been placed. • Chlorine is a concentrated toxin. Very little is required to sanitize a pool. What happens when you swim in the wrong liquid? • Sexual escapades have been known to include all varieties of farm animals. But is it possible to fulfill one's carnal desires with a John Deere tractor? • A fisherman hooks a flopping one pounder, and both die in the process without jumping into the lake. In The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat, Dr. Myers presents intriguing, humorous, unbelievable, and dark vignettes of real medical life. You'll be surprised by the truth as patients present to their doctors with usual symptoms that are masking very unusual diagnoses, and you'll be left wondering how anyone in the world could be affected by these one-of-a-kind medical maladies. A collection of fifty unbelievable and often disturbing strange-but-true medical stories