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From: barbaral@tekig1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: danger in jacuzzi
Message-ID: <1255@tekig1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Aug-83 13:51:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 11 13:51:51 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Aug-83 14:17:20 EDT
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Yesterday, at the health spa I go to, an interesting event happened.
A lady who was in the jacuzzi started screaming.  She was in such
hysterical pain that she could not relate what happened at first.
She was sitting in the jacuzzi and couldn't get out.  I thought it
was her back.  A nurse, who happened to be exercising in the spa,
thought she got her hand caught in some of the jacuzzi nozzles, etc.
The nurse instructed the spa personnel to call the paramedics.  By
this time the lady had somewhat calmed down.  I guess there is a
big 6 inch in diameter suction in the jacuzzi, which has to do with
the water jets, and she had somehow got stuck on it.  The suction was
on her hip, and very painful, and strong.  The paramedics managed to
break the suction.  (The suction did not go away when the jacuzzi
jets were turned off.)  The lady had a huge black and blue bruise where
the suction was.  
Has anyone heard of this happening?