Doctors operating on a man who was rushed to hospital with stomach pains discovered a plastic fork in his belly. Lee Gardner, 40, who was vomiting blood and had stomach cramps, told surgeons in Barnsley he had accidentally swallowed the 9in fork 10 years ago. But he had forgotten he had eaten it as doctors had told him it would pass through his system naturally.
“When they were looking inside me with the camera, the doctor said ‘Are you sure you’ve not swallowed anything?’,” he told the Barnsley Chronicle. “I said no but when he said ‘Are you sure? I can see prongs of what appears to be a fork’, I remembered accidentally swallowing one years and years ago.”
Gardner said he was playing around with the plastic fork in his mouth and gagged, accidentally swallowing it, but it had never caused him problems. Doctors at Barnsley hospital found the prongs had pressed on the stomach lining causing an ulcer that led to the bleeding. Consultant general surgeon Hanis Shiwani said it would have been too dangerous to try to remove the object without surgery and carried out
Gardner, who underwent a 45-minute operation to remove the fork, and was discharged from hospital this week, is expected to make a full recovery.
Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/17/fork-found-mans-stomach
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