There MAY have been a time over the past week where it felt like something LIT A FIRE in your stomach. But not like this guy.
A 67-year-old man in China started experiencing abdominal pain and bloating about a month ago, and his doctors ran some scans.
They noticed a foreign object in his stomach, but had trouble figuring out what it was. They performed an emergency procedure, but had trouble getting it out, because of its smooth, slippery exterior.
When the guy was shown images of the object’s shape, he figured it out: 30 YEARS AGO he was out drinking and he swallowed a PLASTIC LIGHTER on a dare. He assumed it passed through his system . . . but apparently not.
Doctors were eventually able to remove it during an endoscopy, but they had to wrap something around it first, (reports say it was a, “condom-like” technique), to make it less slippery.
Once it was removed, doctors saw that it had been corroded by stomach acid, BUT it still had gas inside, AND IT STILL WORKED.
It sounds like the man will be okay, although we assume he was advised to avoid eating any more lighters.
(MSN)
