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Monday, 31 December 2007
A happy New Year !

 
 Okay, it's gonna be start of the new year (that time of the year again) in half an hour's time. As with each new year, my new year's  resolution would be to eat less, trim down and be stronger .Of course the advice here helps too:

 

 


Posted by pui-chee at 11:48 PM EADT
Updated: Monday, 31 December 2007 11:55 PM EADT
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Bewoulf's animation
There is something about the movie "Beowulf". Iam not sure if actual actors are cast in the film. It seems that not only does the monster Grendel looks like the character in "Lord of the  Rings" but his mother looks like Angelina Jolie (see left picture.)& the queen looks like Shrek's wife.. There's a lot of digital animation and remastery in this movie, nevetheless the geist of the story seems to be saying that everyone of us has a demon within us that we seek to combat... Hmmm...it seems pretty similar to the protrayal of animals as one's personal demons in the "Golden Compass" .

Posted by pui-chee at 6:29 PM EADT
Updated: Monday, 31 December 2007 8:47 PM EADT
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Saturday, 22 December 2007
Another police blooper

Posted by pui-chee at 10:55 AM EADT
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Wednesday, 28 November 2007
A fat bulge may not be what it seem to be
Doctors Find Coins In Patient's Belly

BOSTON (AP) -- French doctors were taken aback when they discovered the reason for a patient's sore, swollen belly: He had swallowed around 350 coins - worth about $860 Cdn - along with assorted necklaces and needles.

The 62-year-old man came to the emergency room of Cholet General Hospital in western France in 2002. He had a history of major psychiatric illness, was suffering from stomach pain and could not eat or move his bowels. His family warned doctors that he sometimes swallowed coins, and a few had been removed from his stomach in past hospital visits.

Still, doctors were awed when they took an X-ray. They discovered an enormous opaque mass in his stomach that turned out to weigh 5.4 kilograms, as much as some bowling balls. It was so heavy it had forced his stomach down between his hips.

Five days after his arrival, doctors cut him open and removed his badly damaged stomach with its contents. He died 12 days later from complications.

One of his doctors, intensive care specialist Dr. Bruno Francois, said the patient had swallowed the coins - both French currency and later euros - over about a decade. His family tried to keep coins and jewelry away from him.

"When he was invited and came in some homes, he liked to steal coins and eat them," Francois said.

The case history of the French patient, whose name was withheld, was reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.

The patient's rare condition is called pica, a compulsion to eat things not normally consumed as food. Its name comes from the Latin word for magpie, a bird thought to eat just about anything.

Pica can take the form of eating dirt, ashes, chalk, hair, soap, toothbrushes, burned matches and many other things. Francois once treated a patient who ate forks. Most such objects are small enough to pass on their own, but some must be removed by doctors.

The condition is perhaps best known in children and pregnant women but is also sometimes linked to psychiatric illness.

A few details of the Frenchman's case were presented Jan. 1 along with the X-ray - but no explanation of the stomach mass - as a challenge to New England Journal of Medicine readers in a fixture called A Medical Mystery.

Dr. Lindsey Baden, an editor at the journal, reported that 666 readers in 73 countries - mostly doctors or doctors-in-training - contacted the journal to try to solve the mystery. Almost 90 per cent settled on diagnoses consistent with pica, but only eight per cent correctly identified coins.

"This case serves as a reminder of important factors that should be considered in the care of patients who are mentally impaired," Baden wrote.

Posted by pui-chee at 7:39 PM EADT
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Another advantage of being fat
A 266 Pound Man Who Was Shot In The Stomach Was Saved By His Rolls Of Fat

Chilean doctors say a 266 pound man who was shot in the stomach was saved by his rolls of fat.

They say the bullet lodged in the man's fat and did not damage any vital organs. A thinner person would have been killed immediately.

A hospital spokesperson in Santiago says the man's thick layer of fat acted in the same way as a bulletproof vest, taking the impact of the shot.

La Cuarta newspaper reports Omar Alegria Campos, who's 33, was driving his bus in the San Bernardo area of Santiago when an armed man got on and started robbing passengers.

Alegria stopped the bus and switched on his emergency lights to alert the police. He then tried to grab the man's weapon.

The attacker fired twice. The first bullet smashed the windscreen and the second lodged in the bus driver's stomach.

Despite the wound, Alegria managed to throw himself on top of the robber, stopping him from escaping.

A passing police patrol arrested the 29-year-old attacker. They also took Alegria to El Pino Hospital, where doctors extracted the bullet and sewed up the wound.


Posted by pui-chee at 7:13 PM EADT
Updated: Wednesday, 28 November 2007 7:36 PM EADT
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