Do you know of a story where the element of time passing made it more amazing?
A woman recently complained of severe stomach problems. After being scanned, they found a pen inside her. What is really more shocking is that it turned out the pen had been lodged in her for the past 25 years!
A long time ago, she had the pen in her mouth, poking at her tonsil. She slipped and claimed she swallowed it. But when they x-rayed her, they did not see any pen. No one seemed to believe her then.
Now after 25 years, the pen is finally out after performing surgery. But here is the amazing part…they used the pen to see if it would still write. It did!.
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I kind of have a hard time swallowing that story (HA HA!!) Really..I don’t see how it could have been in there more than 24 hours without causing some serious issues. Further, it was a felt tip pen. No way that it would write when they got it out. I…don’t believe it….
Oh, I find crap in the stomach all the time that have been there for a long time. A bezoar is the most common.
You’d be surprised what people swallow.
When I was five, I went into the hospital to have my tonsils removed. The old man in the bed next to me was there to have a bobby pin removed from his nose. It turns out that when he was a child, he had shoved a bobby pin up his nose and had never bothered to have it removed, as it it never affected him in any way. Now that he was retired and had nothing left to accomplish, he decided it was finally time, all these decades later, to deal with it.
You’d be surprised what people swallow. @Rarebear That’s the Republican’s theme!!
My own conception actually took seven years. It just baffles me that if my mother had not been infertile and hadn’t come up against some serious sexism, I would be celebrating my 30th birthday in a few weeks instead of my 23rd.
What sexism? And, anyway, if you were born 7 years earlier it wouldn’t be you. The existence of us, as individuals, is almost miraculous, when you think about everything that had to come together just right, at just the right second, between just the right people, over millions of years, for us to exist as us.
@Dutchess_III No miracles necessary. “We must be prepared to take account of the fact that our location in the universe is necessarily privileged to the extent of being compatible with our existence as observers.” – Weak Anthropic Principle
I’m not saying it’s a literal miracle @SmashTheState. I’m saying it is mind boggling to think that if any thing happened a few seconds later, then someone else would have been born. When you take that back thousands of generations, it’s mind blowing.
@Dutchess_III: It took her two years to find someone who would willingly help an unmarried woman get pregnant.
Holy shit, zombie pen!
@SmashTheState Dude. You mean that old man knew the whole time there was a bobby pin up his nose, and just decided to have it removed decades later because he had nothing better to do? That’s probably the coolest thing I’ve heard tonight. :D
Also; zombie pen! That pen kicks ass.
I have no such stories, but I did read this article some time back, about a felon who kept swallowing a buncha shit, like paper clips and staplers, and spending a whole load of time in the hospital getting the objects removed. He kept swallowing things and got operated on in order to stay out of prison. Doctors said that if he didn’t stop this, his stomach was going to become completely useless, but I never heard any feedback on the story.
@MRSHINYSHOES Wow, even Big Ben can’t say shit to that light bulb.
Zombie light bulb!
@Symbeline I know, the story made me have goosebumps! That’s why you gotta love the old days! Lol.
@Symbeline I regret not being the one who thought of the words “zombie pen.” Lol.
I’ve heard about that lightbulb!
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