Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Beloved pet was whisker away from death before West Lothian vet saved the day
dailyrecord.co.ukA leading West Lothian vet performed life-saving surgery on a beloved cat that had swallowed a piece of elastic and was a whisker away from death.Eleven-year-old Lily had a serious perforation of her intestines after swallowing an elasticated piece of string, which then became lodged dangerously in her stomach.Lucky Lily has now recovered after receiving expert care at Linnaeus-owned Veterinary Specialists Scotland (VSS) in Livingston.Fiona Whitworth, a clinical fellow in internal medicine at VSS, took charge of the case.She said: “Lily’s owner had seen something string-like hanging from her mouth earlier in the day but had been unable to get hold of it before she swallowed it.“Lily was taken to her local vets who immediately recognised the risks associated with eating string, especially the potential to cause a serious obstruction, and referred her to us at VSS.“A linear foreign body such as this can be very serious, as the intestines can become bunched up around the material, which can repeatedly rub against the tissues of the guts, acting almost like a saw, and this can lead to perforation.“Imaging was performed, including a conscious x-ray and ultrasound scan, but were inconclusive, so it remained uncertain whether the string still remained in Lily’s stomach.“Lily was anaesthetised to allow an endoscopy to be carried out.
The endoscope is guided down the throat into the stomach and allows us to see inside the internal organs without having to do invasive surgery.“This minimally invasive technique means shorter anaesthetic times and quicker recovery periods.“Due to this, I was able to examine the upper intestinal tract, looking at the oesophagus and stomach, and was able to locate and remove a piece of elasticated
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