Paralysed by love bite

You’ve heard people say, “I love you to death.” Well here’s a bizarre twist on that statement. The Sun newspaper reports that a New Zealand woman took herself to hospital after losing movement in her left arm while watching television . . . but there was a suprising finding when doctors investigated.

They found that the 44-year-old woman had suffered a mild stroke – but were puzzled about its cause until they found a small bruise on her neck near a major artery. She told them it was a love bite received a few days earlier.

According to The Sun, doctor Teddy Wu said: “Because it was a love bite there would be a lot of suction. Because of the physical trauma it had made a bit of bruising inside the vessel.

“There was a clot in the artery underneath where the hickey was,” he said.

When the clot dislodged, it caused a minor stroke that led to the loss of movement.

Luckily for our Kiwi lover, this wasn’t the Twilight series, and the stroke didn’t prove life threatening. – Ridge Correspondent.

Woman paralysed by love bite