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Post by kevin on Aug 3, 2015 10:32:58 GMT -5
This is from a few years ago, but I had never seen it before today:
"First I get a call from Williams's PR saying Wendy is stuck in traffic and will be about half an hour late. At more or less the newly appointed hour, the towering, dirty-blonde-wig-wearing star appears, all in black and a little out of breath, in the midtown Manhattan café where the suddenly very small-seeming PR and I are waiting.
"'Bad traffic?' asks the small PR sympathetically.
"Williams has barely had time to take off her oversized sunglasses before she launches into the story of her morning. 'Actually,' she says, 'I lost a tampon. Last night I thought there was one in there but I couldn't find it. My husband offered to take a look but I said: 'Uh, actually, no thanks.' Cos, you know, some things just ... Anyway, I had to go to my gynaecologist's office - which is in New Jersey, where I live - first thing this morning.
"'I waited in my car until the office was open so she could see me right away. It was fine. There was nothing there.'
"Small PR smiles weakly. Williams has been referred to as 'a publicist's worst nightmare'.
"She pauses briefly to order a soda. 'I debated whether to share that with you or not,' she adds, appearing to almost regret the tampon story, 'but I decided it was relatable. I mean, it's probably happened to every woman at some point in her life, right?'..." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/07/wendy-williams-oprah-chat-show
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Post by kevin on Aug 3, 2015 16:31:57 GMT -5
By the way, ladies, has this in fact "probably happened to every woman at some point in her life"? Has it ever happened to *you*?
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Post by max23 on Aug 5, 2015 2:17:03 GMT -5
So she preferred to go to the trouble of visiting her gyno, rather than letting her husband take a look?? That's just bizarre!
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Post by kayo on Aug 5, 2015 17:31:21 GMT -5
Bizarre is right... I mean, does she have a suite of private vestibules down there? Things go missing? Where can it go, up behind her left kidney? I've never lost a tampon but I have forgotten that I had one already there. Well, you find that out pretty quick. "Hey... there's one there already... WTF....". But I do know a few girls who did in fact lose one, and one of them went to the gyno to get it removed. Maybe it's a personal thing - fingers, blood, icky stuff. Or fear. I don't know. And having someone willing to go fishing, heck... it's worth a try.
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Post by tampaxus on Sept 7, 2015 6:45:32 GMT -5
happens more often then you think... some forget they removed it and some forget they have one already inserted. there is a dark side to that, called toxic shock syndrome (TSS). one ex-girlfriend works as obgyn nurse and she told me they regularly get women with stuck tampons and remove them (with speculums). TSS can be very bad and it is wise to make sure nothing is wrong. it can get very very bad and life threatening: you-are-loved.org/category/tss-stories/up until today i did not know that 1 in 700 women will get tampon related TSS. but 2013 i read a news article about a 14-year old girl, who died of TSS, i was shocked: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2508321/Natasha-Scott-Falber-14-died-toxic-shock-syndrome-caused-tampon.htmlOften toxic shock syndrome results from toxins produced by Staphylococcus aureus (staph) bacteria, but the condition may also be caused by toxins produced by group A streptococcus (strep) bacteria. Toxic shock syndrome historically has been associated primarily with the use of superabsorbent tampons. However, since manufacturers pulled certain types of tampons off the market, the incidence of toxic shock syndrome in menstruating women has declined. Toxic shock syndrome can affect men, children and postmenopausal women. Risk factors for toxic shock syndrome include skin wounds and surgery.
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Post by kayo on Sept 28, 2015 16:22:40 GMT -5
Well that's true, and I guess if you really forgot you had one, and just put another one in on top, the first one would sure become a bacterial nightmare in just a day or so. Maybe I'm lucky. We usually associated TSS with the super-absorbant tampons, but of course leaving it in too long (or forgetting) is just as dangerous. 1 in 700 is a lot... too many.
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