Margaret Suran wrote:

> A man I know and his wife went on a cruise many years ago, perhaps
> 30 or 35. They loved to play bridge. John picked up a dream hand and
> after a couple of rounds of bidding, found himself in a Grand Slam.
> When he cashed trick number 13 and proudly said: "Seven bid and made",
> he pitched forward and died. Let me assure you that he died a happy
> man....... I know his wife.......

I had a patient who drank a "fishbowl" full of whiskey at a bar for his
60th birthday. As he set it down he said "thats going to kill me", fell
over backwards, had CPR done, and lived. I admitted him and boy did he
stink of VFW bar.
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