Man Eats Scrap Metal for Breakfast One Too Many Times – 2 Hour Surgery
Posted Nov 11 2009 10:01pm
This is one of those stranger than strange stories, and what was he thinking? The article said the man was being sent for a mental evaluation after the surgeons were done. Something wrong with the taste buds here at minimum. BD
DOCTORS in northern Peru have removed almost a kilogram of nails, coins and scrap me tal from a man's stomach, a surgeon that operated on him said today.
"The patient came in with severe abdominal pains. After examinations we discovered that he had hundreds of nails in his stomach,'' Carlos Delgado, a surgeon at the hospital in the town of Cajamarca, told AFP. Requelme Abanto Alvarado was admitted to the hospital on Friday. After a two-hour operation doctors removed 900 grams of nails, coins and scrap metal from his stomach, as well as a small knife.
This is one of those stranger than strange stories, and what was he thinking? The article said the man was being sent for a mental evaluation after the surgeons were done. Something wrong with the taste buds here at minimum. BD
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