New Zealand Woman Suffers Stroke, Paralysis After Hickey ‘Love Bite’
- Posted on January 22, 2011 at 8:10am by
Meredith Jessup
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A “love bite” — aka, a hickey — often leave one feeling embarrassed. But a woman in New Zealand was left partially paralyzed after one romantic encounter went wrong.
According to the UK’s Daily Mail, the 44-year-old’s story is the first reported of its kind. When the woman rushed to the hospital after experiencing a loss of movement on the left side of her body, doctors suspected she’d had a small stroke, but struggled find what may have caused it.
But a fading bruise mark on the right side of her neck led doctors to believe that the so-called “love bite” damaged a major artery and a resulting blood clot traveled to the woman’s brain, causing the stroke.
“To my knowledge, it‘s the first time someone has been hospitalized by a ’hickey,’” said Dr. Teddy Wu, the woman’s treating physician. Doctor Wu also warned that if the unnamed woman’s condition had gone untreated, she could have suffered a number of subsequent strokes.
“Strokes have different levels of severity,” he said, “but possibly patients can become paralyzed.”
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bobodu
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 4:39pmAll you people who would like to give Palin a hickey have my encouragement now.
Report Post »Neil Mariner
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 11:39amIts starting. Next there going to ban hugging, then copping a ; can’t say that according to the site rules. They wouldn’t approve af me saying (a feel). They won’t let me say that.
Report Post »onlyright
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 11:32pmYikes!! Better lay off the hickeys!
Report Post »Rob_M
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:12pmLove hurts, love scars, love wounds, and marks…
DeclareTruth
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:25pmIt traveled to her HEART causing a stroke? Never!! Somebody needs to look up the facts before writing stories. I looked it up again just to make sure I’m right before writing this comment. As I thought, a blood clot blocking an artery affecting the heart causes a HEART ATTACK. If it’s in the BRAIN, it causes a STROKE. In other words, a stroke is a heart attack that ocurrs in your brain.
Report Post »dhiggy66
Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:01amMaybe you should read more carefully – it traveled to her BRAIN! And, something that stops blood from flowing to the brain can cause a stroke.
Report Post »benrush
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 12:22pmHer veins and arteries are weak. Too much sugar can weaken your blood vessels. This can be cured with Vitamin C, which is integral to the production of collagen, along with lysine. It happens on a smaller scale with cold sores and so on. I would immediately begin a vitamin C regimen if I were her.
Report Post »mhills51
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 11:44amCome on guy’s this it UK government doctors! the hickey didn’t cause here condition it was what fallowed the hickey.
Report Post »tompaineknowsthescore
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 12:21pmthe woman was in the new zealand the newspaper if one can call the mail such a thing was british ffs
Report Post »and healhcares good in britain we spend less on it than ur govt does as a % of GDP and have a higher live expectancy
chips1
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 6:55pmIt says in the story that what followed was Stroking. The hickey was just foreplay!
Report Post »lildeb56
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 11:29amHow bizarre! Now I have some ammunition against my hubby who is always doing this to me, although I don‘t think he’ll take this story seriously.
Report Post »Carl1
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 11:09amSure hope that don’t spread to our young liberal teens here in America? They will be dropping like birds.
Report Post »seenandheard
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 10:46amNow there will be a waiting period and a back round check on hickeys. The kiss of death!
Report Post »etetetet
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 10:21amThat sucks :)
Report Post »TC
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:33amNo , just a few million of taxpayer money to understand the Hickey!
Report Post »Snowleopard-the artist {cat folk artist}
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:51amWould not suprise me if someone either has already applied for such funding to do the research, or will shortly be doing so. Nowdays you seem to be able to get funding for almost any kind of nonsense in the world.
Report Post »Nocoincidence
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:25amThere will now be an executive order banning hickies in the U.S.
Report Post »Xyskalla
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:25amOh, great! So now they’re going to be banning hickeys!
Report Post »franknshadow
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 10:28amNo, they’ll just make it a preexisting condition
Report Post »Sicialian Eyeball
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 8:35amNever date someone from Transylvania.
Report Post »Snowleopard-the artist {cat folk artist}
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:50amNor invite them to a steak out either, vampires are rather shy about that kind of party.
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 8:25am44 years old? What kind of immature moron is she dating?
Report Post »GeeWhiz
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:27amThat’s what I was thinking.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 11:32amI was thinking the same thing. Who gets hickies after high school? I never let anyone give me hickeys even then. I think they are tatamount to marking ones territory. Kind of like dogs peeing on stuff to make sure other dogs know they were there. No thanks.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 11:44amUNTAMEABLE-KATE, I’m with you, girls who got hickies back then were tramps, or in today’s verbage, “ho’s”. I had more self-respect than that.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 11:45amKATE, did you realize your name was hijacked yesterday? Been gone all morning so I haven’t kept up with all posts.
Report Post »RoguePatriot
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 10:19amSad isn’t it Kiwi. I graduated with my Bachelors in History and Political Science Summa *** Laude. Now I am almost done with my Masters and will enjoy the same honors, and it is amazing to me to see a lot of my fellow students that do not know basic geography. There was a few of them who did not know were Iraq was. Every since our school system was taken over by the government our education here has went down the toilet!
Report Post »orcainohio
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 8:14amJust goes to show that hickies are best ausie style. Down Under.
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 8:22amMust be a cougar playing with a boy toy.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:29am912828Buckeye, funny. Love hurts, as they say.
Report Post »Snowleopard-the artist {cat folk artist}
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:49amGlad she is alright, and the guy that gave her the hicky will have a heck of a story: “Uh, you know guys that lady I went out with, turns out my kisses are…”
Report Post »justanamerican
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 10:16am“”Just goes to show that hickies are best ausie style. Down Under.”"
LOL, ROTF…..Good one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Lt_Taz
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:38pmI wonder if the chaps name is HOOVER?
Report Post »avenger
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 3:36pmit was an infected vampire with bubonic plague….
Report Post »KiwiWifeOfMarineVet
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 7:14pmorcainohio you do realise that New Zealand is not part of Australia, and to others who referenced Britain, No NZ is not part of Britain! God the number of oklahomans I had to explain to that No Im not British, No New Zealand is not part of the UK! Crazy how many Americans I came across didn’t know basic world geography.
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