Posted on 07/04/2018 4:26:16 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The gifted swimmer, who was a 14-year-old national champion at the time and on the London 2012 World Class Programme, stroked the giant creature for a ‘once in a lifetime experience
She said: ‘I was getting severe pains in my muscles and my joints. I kept going to the doctors but they treat all these things separately.
‘Mine was dormant for four years before I started getting poorly,’ Sophie said.
Her health varies and she must now use a wheelchair for long journeys.
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Don’t pet wild animals.
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my 1st thought
“...stroked the giant creature for a ‘once in a lifetime experience.”
Probably not for the Panda. I guess I don’t get this whole Panda-mania thing.
BS You don’t get the symptoms she experienced just a few hours after being bitten by the tic.
Poor girl. Prayers for her.
“His wife, Lisa, and his eight children see a different Kris now. It really is a modern-day medical miracle.”
WOW!
I have never heard exactly how long it takes for symptoms to manifest when you have contracted Lyme Disease. Probably vaires somewhat between patients.
However, I have a riding friend who lived in Porterville, Calif years ago. She got bitten, and the red circle on her leg was driving her nuts. I saw it when a group of us went to her ranch for a long weekend of riding & socializing.
She went to the doctor, and he kept telling her she DID NOT have Lyme disease-—this is over 25 years ago. Lyme was pretty new on the scene then.
She insisted to be tested for the problem, and got a very apologetic call from the doctor a day later-—She DID have Lyme, and she was the first person in Tulare Country diagnosed with it.
The first meds he put her on were not working well. She talked to one of the Veterinarians who worked our riding events, and he told her EXACTLY what to get from the doctor. Told her IF the doc wouldn’t get it for her, call him back & he would send meds to her -—Fed Ex overnight.
She got on those meds & was better within hours. Today, she is fine & to my knowledge, has no after effects.
The veterinarian, on the other hand, did not get diagnosed early enough & lost a kidney over Lyme Disease.
NOT a fun problem to have.
Wow. Amazing story. Smart patient, smart vet.
Hmmmm... I find it a bit difficult to believe she got Lyme Disease from a panda - or even a tick on the panda.
Three cases giant panda attack on human at Beijing Zoo
Some graphic pictures.
I don’t either. If I were president or had say over taxpayer funds, we’d save 10s of millions of wasted money spent on pandas at the National Zoo. If you read the details, China retains ownership. If China values them, let them pay for them.
“Our first case was a drunken male who had jumped into the giant panda’s enclosure and tried to pet it closely. The giant panda may have become infuriated and frightened and bit our case severely.”
...vacuum sealing drainage (VSD)...
Oh MY.
Like a seal-o-meal.
I don’t get it either.
The times I have seen a panda, they looked and acted like they were shot with thorazine darts and crapped their panda pants, mud and dingleberries hanging off their Panda Derrières.
Totally boring and uninteresting to me.
, we’d save 10s of millions of wasted money spent on pandas at the National Zoo
Just a guess, but I believe we the taxpayers pay more for the extreme medical care of individual illegals, in US hospital. They stay for years and the hospitals are not allowed to boot them out.
Some young Marines I knew were in a car wreck in Mexico (clean and sober, daytime).
They sewed the wounds up and released them.
After return to Post, they became very ill and required extensive hospital services. None of the internal injuries had bed repaired.
Can we keep the pandas and return the invaders?
In 1996 I was bitten by a tick while mowing with a riding mower. The NEXT MORNING, I woke up with the perfect “bullseye” rash. The rash was so defined, the doctor took pictures of it.
You beat me to it.
Quite a story
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