Dispensary Corner 14 Jul 11
July 14, 2011
BEWARE a swollen eye, you
never know what it might
contain.
A woman in China has had a
6cm piece of chopstick
removed from her eye socket
after complaining of eye pain.
The woman, Ci Yang,
contacted doctors in Chengdu,
to try to find the cause for her
persistent swollen red eye.
Doctors gave Ci a CAT scan
and discovered a 6cm object
in the right corner of her eye.
Immediately after the scan
surgeons operated and
removed the chopstick.
Later it was discovered that
the utensil got into her eye 11
years ago after she slipped
and hit her head on the table,
causing what was thought to
be temporary eye damage,
which cleared up with antiinflammation
medication.
According to Ci, since then
her eye flared up periodically
but was calmed with anti-inflammatory
drugs.
Doctors have since told her
that she was lucky that the
chopstick lodged in the gap
between her eye and her
socket, otherwise she would
be blind.
ANIMAL instincts.
A particularly maternal
spaniel, Kraska, has adopted
an abandoned wild lynx kitten
and is raising it as her own.
Keepers at a Polish wildlife
park made the decision to try
nine-year old Kraska out as an
adoptive mum, after the lynx
was rejected by her own
mother.
Kraska had just given birth
to a litter of pups when the
baby lynx, named Mis, was
given to her care.
“Now they are inseparable
and love playing with each
other,” said the wildlife park
owner, Marta Kowalska.
“Mis is a true part of
Kraska’s family,” she added.
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