Life Need a Post-Thanksgiving-Gorge Appetite Suppressant?
posted by on November 23 at 9:28 AM
Check out this CNN report about the 10-pound hairball removed from the stomach of an 18-year-old woman. (Complete with post-op hairball photo.)
You’re welcome.
thank you for reminding me that i am not as jaded as i thought.
Between you and Jen, I'm just glad SOMEBODY on the interwebs is awake this morning.
Hey, I'm here, working in an empty office. Hooray.
Now THAT is a picture I did not need to see this morning. Blecth.
Red or white wine with that?
That hairball looks like a small otter.
I'm really, really sorry I looked at that.
Wow.... WOOOOW......
The technical term for a human hairball is a trichobezoar
OK. This would not be nearly as gross if I hadn't started by day by almost stepping on a similar-looking (but way smaller) hairball that my roommate's cat so kindly coughed up this morning.
But still. Eeeww.
Fans of Cecil Adams may remember a column he wrote some time ago about bezoars. Hairballs of goats and other animals were allegedly treasured in medieval and Renaissance times. Queen Elizabeth I (the one from the 16th century) supposedly had one among her crown jewels. I'll have to check out the Royal Hairball on my next trip to Britain.
I only knew about bezoars from reading comic books -- there's an old issue of Neil Gaiman's Sandman that features one in the plot...
I'll admit it: I know bezoars from Harry Potter.
uh, yea... thanks 4 that.
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