Your Underwire could kill you!

[kadee79]

When a gunshot victim arrived at a trauma center in British Columbia two years ago, doctors initially assumed that the case would be fairly straightforward.

The patient, a 39-year-old woman, was responsive at first, even talking, despite having been shot at close range with a shotgun. Bullet fragments had lodged in her chest and her abdomen, but none appeared life-threatening. X-rays also showed a variety of metal around the patient’s body — keys, a cellphone and the like — but doctors figured they were items inside the pockets of a jacket she was still wearing.

Soon, however, the woman’s breathing deteriorated rapidly. She was immediately intubated and rushed to an operating room, where doctors made an alarming discovery after they cut into her body.

“When the surgeon opened her, this thing just literally sprang up at 90 degrees,” Laura Duggan, an anesthesiologist at the University of British Columbia, told The Washington Post in a phone interview Wednesday.

It appeared to be a metal wire — sharply curved, measuring a half-chest in length — but no one could positively identify it at first.

www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/a-woman-was-shot-at-close-range-but-it-was-her-underwire-bra-that-nearly-killed-her/ar-BBUapQK?li=BBnbfcL

Be sure to read further to see how much damage this thing did inside her body.

[Tennesseer]

One lucky woman.

[haapai]

I still blame the bullet.  It took the bullet catching the underwire and driving it into her body to do this damage.  Without a bullet forcing the wire into your body, the amount of damage that an underwire bra can do to you is quite limited. 

I say that even though I still have discolorations under my armpits from what the underwire in a cheap cotton bra did to me 25 years ago.  I wish that I hadn't been too vain to ditch it when the wires first started to poke. 

[wyouser]

I had always heard that being wired could be hazardous to your health, especially if the ones you were recording were some of those dangerous types. But, the wire itself? I guess one needs to beware of things that may "spring up"...…...

[resolution]

Thank goodness for bralettes!

[NoNamePerson]

I think bras are hazardous to you health too  But mine keeps me from being beaten to death when walking, running, etc. 

[zibazinski]

Bragplaint!!

[NoNamePerson]

Feb 28, 2019 8:15:14 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Bragplaint!!

 Not really!!!!!!

[zibazinski]

Small breasted girls are safe !

[Tennesseer]

Feb 28, 2019 7:44:27 GMT -5 NoNamePerson said:

I think bras are hazardous to you health too  But mine keeps me from being beaten to death when walking, running, etc. 

Being smothered when sleeping on your back?