When I was in high school, just a few short years ago, wearing a turtleneck to school usually meant you were hiding something. That something was a bright red oval marking on the skin. Yes, nothing said I love you like the high school hickey. Today I don’t know which surprises me more, someone getting a hickey or someone getting a hickey that parcially paralyzes them.
A woman in Auckland, New Zealand, was the recipient of a love bite that sent her to the emergency room when, while watching television, she became partially paralyzed on her left side. Doctor’s were baffled as to the cause of the paralysis until noticing a bruise on the woman’s neck, i.e. the hickey. Evidently, the hickey was given quite close to a major artery on the woman’s neck causing a blood clot that eventually travelled to her heart resulting in a small stroke.
Love hurts and apparently now can come close to killing you. Of course if you’re going to suck on someone’s neck like a Hoover than you’re taking your chances. This close call makes it official. Hickeys are now as dangerous as they are gross.
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