Bar: I was given some awesome advice a few years back from a guy who advised that one should very, very rarely EVER have to pay to purchase a writing pen since they are pretty much all over the place and easy to obtain for free. This story reminds me of that counsel
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Doctors Remove Working Pen From Woman’s Stomach After 25 Years
A 76-year-old woman went to the hospital complaining of weight loss and diarrhea, only to find she had a felt-tipped pen lodged in her stomach, the Edmonton Sun reported.
The discovery was published in the British Medical Journal.
The woman told doctors she had accidentally swallowed a pen 25 years ago when she slipped while “interrogating a spot on her tonsil.”
When doctors – and the woman’s husband - didn’t believe her an X-ray proved she was right.
To the surprise of doctors, the pen was still in working order. A doctor wrote “hello”
with it and then took a photo.
Click here to read more on this story.
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Doctors Remove Working Pen From Woman’s Stomach After 25 Years
A 76-year-old woman went to the hospital complaining of weight loss and diarrhea, only to find she had a felt-tipped pen lodged in her stomach, the Edmonton Sun reported.
The discovery was published in the British Medical Journal.
The woman told doctors she had accidentally swallowed a pen 25 years ago when she slipped while “interrogating a spot on her tonsil.”
When doctors – and the woman’s husband - didn’t believe her an X-ray proved she was right.
To the surprise of doctors, the pen was still in working order. A doctor wrote “hello”
with it and then took a photo.
Click here to read more on this story.
