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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517139,00.html

After a leech attached itself to an Australian woman's eyeball, doctors in suburban Sydney used a little bit of creativity to dislodge it, the Australian Associated Press reports.


Doctors wrote about the odd case in Emergency Medicine Australasia, a medical journal from Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. The case study includes the new recommendation of using saline solution to remove leeches attached to a person's eyeball.


The saga began after the 66-year-old woman accidentally flicked dirt — and the leech — into her eye while gardening in March of last year.

The leech wiggled across her cornea and began to feed on the blood vessels of her eye.
"It was tucked up underneath her upper eyelid,'' said emergency doctor Toby Fogg who helped to remove the blood-sucking critter. "Our little fellow started off at about half a centimeter and by the time we removed it, it was about 2 centimeters long — it had quite a good lunch.''

Fogg said the doctors could not use tweezers to remove the leech for fear the head would remain in the eyeball and cause an infection. They tried numbing the eye, but the leech was unaffected. Medical literature also recommended using salt, but doctors feared that would be too abrasive to the eye. Instead, they turned to saline solution.

After applying the solution, the leech slithered off the eye, landing on the woman's cheek.

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Uh honey... I'm going need that skin graft back.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14473165/?GT1=8404

How do you recall body parts?

It seems that they process beef more carefully than humans.

Big Dig disaster...When will they learn?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2232100

More loose bolts? People getting crushed by falling ceiling panels? When you use epoxy to hold up a 3 ton block of concrete you sure as hell better test, inspect and test again. What kind of irresponsible nincompoop doesn't keep up on these things.

When you let high profile politically motivated morons run one of the biggest
construction projects in world history it is a recipe for disaster.

Now everyone is pointing fingers and trying to do public relations damage control.

I don't see myself driving to Boston anytime soon