A 76-year-old found a pen in her stomach that she had accidentally swallowed while checking her tonsils. According to the woman, she rushed to the hospital but X-rays and scans didn’t find anything inside of her. The pen was inside of her stomach for more than 25 years and when the pen was removed it still worked. I’m not really know why they would decide to write with the pen they just took out of her stomach but they did. Read more after the jump.
The 76-year-old, who has not been named, inadvertently swallowed the felt-tip in early 1986 while she was attempting to check her tonsils.
As she held down her tongue it fell down her throat and she rushed to hospital to have it removed.
But her husband and doctors dismissed her story after scans and X-rays failed to find anything. She later left the hospital and forgot about it.
More than 25 years later she was seen by a gastrointestinal specialist at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital Foundation Trust after suffering stomach pains, weight loss and diarrhoea.
An urgent investigation disclosed that areas of the woman’s large intestine had become inflamed, which was causing the abdominal pain.
