Swallowed Cockroach Followed By Fork Chaser
Laparoscopic surgery for strange objects
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An Israeli woman swallowed a cockroach and, right after it, a fork she used to fish the critter out of her throat.  A winged cockroach jumped into the woman’s mouth as she was cleaning her home, and as she tried to scoop the bug out with a fork, she swallowed the fork as well. An x-ray (above) shows the fork, lodged sideways in the woman’s stomach. The surgeon removed the fork with laparoscopic surgery, but didn’t need to remove the cockroach - it was already digested. The woman recovered, and fared better than the old woman of the children’s rhyme: “There was an old woman who swallowed a fly. I don’t know why she swallowed a fly. Perhaps she’ll die.” see also Bizarre, Medical & Stress Sections Cockroach Cancer
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