FORTY YEAR OLD NEEDLE REMOVED FROM MAN'S INTESTINES
A Chinese man from Jiujiang, China, hospitalized with back and chest pains
was found to have had an acupuncture needle lodged in his body for 40 years.
Xu Long, 60, of Jiujiang, said doctors initially told
him it was "just old age"
when he started developing back and chest
pains, but doctors recently decided to perform an X-ray when his pain became
severe.
"They told me there was a foreign body in my
stomach and I just panicked thinking it was cancer," he said. "You
can imagine my shock and relief when they told me it was the acupuncture
needle."
Xu said he hasn't received acupuncture treatments
since 1974, when he suffered stomach pains while in the Army. He said the
needle must have broken before it could be removed by the Army doctor.
Dr. Ye Lin, who removed the more than 1-inch-long
needle, said the discovery was "quite a surprise for all of us."
"The needle which was stuck in his intestines had
turned black and was very thick because of decades of oxidation," the
doctor said.
He said the needle had likely been moving around
inside the man's body for years before it ended up in his intestines.
Xu said his "pains have completely gone."
"And I don't have cancer so I'm a winner all
round," he said.
Mature Minds Talk.
He's really a survivor
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