1960 Hospital in Southern England a young and inexperienced sqad was called to A&E to see a youth who had pushed a spring up his rectum.
Sqad arrived to see a bare@*** with a chest expander spring hanging out.
Sqad pulled but nothing happened apart from cries from the youth.
Sqad wanted to know how far it had gone in so ordered an X-Ray which showed it as far up as the colon.
Sqad called Registrar who decided it should be removed under GA which it was BUT next day he developed abdominal pain and peritonitis. He was taken back to theatre and a perforated bowel was sutured and a Colostomy fashioned.
All ended well, but when sqad asked why he stuck it up, he replied:
"My parents were away, I was alone and I was won't to sit upon it"
//patient turned up with two-inch-wide WWII shell lodged in his rectum which got there when he 'slipped and fell on it during a clear-out'//
don't you just hate it when that happens
Sort of allied. ~A friend (GP) who lived a couple of doors away and had gone into her first practice in Bradford, once confided in me that a chap, who walked very awkwardly, had presented himself with a milk bottle which was equally awkwardly lodged. It was also the result of an unlikely fall - terrible, really. She had been fairly gently raised.....