Posted on 08/22/2016 11:23:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A man in India spent two months swallowing knives and had 40 of them surgically removed from his stomach, according to the doctor who led the operation. "He had a wild urge to consume metal. Even for us, the experienced surgeons, it was frightening," Dr. Jatinder Malhotra told CNN.
"We were so nervous... a small mistake could have taken the patient's life. In my 20 years of practice, I have never seen anything like it."
Malhotra said it took his team about two days to form a diagnosis and surgery plan.
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Malhotra said they found foldable knives, which when fully extended were about seven inches long. "He [the patient] says he swallowed some knives folded, and some unfolded. When we took out the knives -- some were found folded, some were open, and some had even started rusting and were broken," Malhotra said. The patient, a 42-year-old father of two, told CNN he's feeling much better.
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Malhotra says the patient is now "out of danger" and is set to be discharged in a couple of days.
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What was the point?
"We were so nervous... a small mistake could have taken the patient's life. In my 20 years of practice, I have never seen anything like it."
Everybody was on edge. He could have blade to death.
Darn, you’re on a roll!
Rats. Foiled again.
Why 40?
Because 39 wouldn’t cut it.
I had been concerned that this place had become a pun thread desert.
This guy goes under the knife, and out come forty knives. Kind of like the parable of the talents, only different.
Imagine what he could he do with a few loaves and fishes.
Edgy you might say...
He could slice them!
[Dog swallowed knife]
How insane does a person have to be, to do something like this? What is he going to do now? I can’t even imagine!!!
There must be something special about India. If there are examples of the weirdest, sorriest, most disgusting, most depraved, just about any extreme you can think of, stories (as related by the UK Daily Mail, for lack of a better or worse source) - India provides them. (Sorry Africa, you can’t win everything).
Was that dog a Lab?
a Dobie w/ a record *26* golfballs!!!!!
a Lab with a fishing pole! LOL
Or swallow them whole. ;)
Seriously, who does this?
Never mind the forty knives, how many gallons of Pepto Bismol did he chug down?
According to the headline, his stomach was distended all the way to India.
Just reading about this whole thing gives me the shiv-ers.
Leni
“Would you care for the Claymore tonight?”
“No, I’m not that hungry. I’ll take a light sabre.”
I expect knife-removal surgery has a very high patient satisfaction rate.
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