Published: January 23, 2011
Op-Ed Contributor
Woman Suffers a Stroke From a Hickey
By Robert Paul Reyes
"A woman was partially paralyzed from a hickey that caused her to have a small stroke, the New Zealand Medical Journal said according to a media report.
The 44-year-old New Zealander went to the emergency room after she found that she couldn't move her left arm while she was watching TV.
Doctors concluded that she had had a stroke but were perplexed as to why, the paper said. Then they found a 'love bite' on her neck near a major artery, and discovered a clot in the artery beneath the hickey - a small vertical bruise.
The Maori woman was treated with an anticoagulant and the clot disappeared within a week, doctors said." Read MoreA hickey is a bruise caused by biting the skin forcefully enough to burst capillaries beneath the skin. A hickey is as romantic and sexy as red blotches caused by venereal diseases.
Only kids, drunks and wannabe vampires give each other hickeys. The Maori woman is way too old to let anyone give her a hickey.
It's one thing to take your lover's breath away, it's quite another to almost take her life away.
If a hickey causes this woman to suffer a stroke, I would advise her not to make love; she might die of a heart attack.
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