Swallowed pen recoverd 25 years later!!

I was reading the headline news a few days ago and came across a really strange case! A 76 year lady had swallowed her pen 25 years earlier and has just had an operation to have it removed from her abdomen after she developed sudden weight loss and diarrhoea.

The news told that years earlier she had been examining a white dot on her tonsils with it, slipped and swallowed it accidently, both her husband and GP dismissed her claims after an abdominal exam and after it didn't show up on X-ray.

The pen didn't appear to have any effect on her health atall, and it wasn't until she suffered some weight loss and diarrhoea that doctors discovered it after a CT scan and removed it to prevent the risk of perforation of her intestines should the pen begin to pass further through her.

Anyway, turns out this isn't an usual case, and that people swallow unusual things all the time for example a man swallowed a USB stick! 

I just thought this was rather interesting because of the extraordinary length of time that the pen was inside the woman for (apparently the felt tip came out working too 25 years later!) so thought I'd share it. So, to all of you out there that have ever been dared to swallow something just for a laugh... You might end up being stuck with it for quite a while - best not to find out really!

Charlie