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Subscribe to RSSDid you really need another reason not to give your girlfriend a hickey? Here's one: A New Zealand woman was partially paralyzed after receiving a "lovebite" from her partner, reports a New Zealand news site. When the 44-year-old visited the emergency room at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, she was unable to move her left arm. Her only other injury: the hickey on the right side of her neck.
An unfortunate chain of events followed: The hickey was covering an artery, and all the sucking it takes to create a hickey caused some bruising inside the blood vessel, resulting in a clot. That clot went into the woman's heart, triggering a minor stroke -- hence her frozen arm.
Doctors treated her with an anticoagulant, and her clot almost completely disappeared within a week.
Hickeys: as dangerous as they are gross, according to science.
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oh please............dangerous..........are you serious.............one woman somewhere in the world had a stroke because of a hicky....why even mention it..........
Because it's odd. And it happened to someone's body. So.
because is is stupid ghetto and gross to give or have a hicky. Who needs that?
It was all part of his plan...Give her Hickeys till she can resist any more!
Even more odd is a 44 year old woman still in junior high...
Hickeys are not as dangerous as they are gross. They're gross everytime, but they're dangerous rarley
Did I really read this article?
sometimes things get out of hand, I get that. I've been there. But news worthy? NOT! Now if the hickey had a picture of Jesus or the winning lotto numbers?? Heck ya that thar is news! (from the voice of the local hillbillie) LOL!
44 is a little past the age of getting or giving hickeys, isn't it? When I was in high school they were kind of cool because that meant someone had gotten close enough to you to give you a hickey. After high school, Nah!
She can sue Him now for gross suculence. How did you even get the story but yes this is good to know how delicate some things can be..
Well, stranger things have happened. Not that I can remember any just off the top of my head, but I'm sure there're stranger things out there. I think.
The woman had a stroke, not a heart attack. The blood clot would have formed in her carotid artery and moved into her brain causing an ischemic stroke. Because of the contralateral organization of the brain, cutting off blood flow to the right side would cause deficiencies on the left.
A heart attack, or myocardial infarction, is when a blood clot is lodged in the coronary arteries and disrupts blood flow to the heart.
Yes that would definitely be a stroke, not a heart attack. And I'm sure that while her significant other was giving her the hickey it hurt more than usual. Why didn't she stop him? I know I would. And I also know that when I am 44 I will not allow my husband to give me hickeys.