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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Saudi Surgeons Remove Toothbrush After 22 Years in Patient’s Stomach
2005-01-19
A Saudi medical team removed a toothbrush from the stomach of a man who had swallowed it 22 years ago, the official SPA news agency reported yesterday. The toothbrush caused the 70-year-old patient no ill effects until a few days before he was operated on, said Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Zahrani, the head of the team at King Abdul Aziz Specialist Hospital in the western town of Taif. The operation was successful, Zahrani added.
A second, simpler operation is scheduled to remove the floss from his small intestine.
Posted by:Fred

#10  I would guess it's the latter.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2005-01-19 8:25:13 PM  

#9  So.... how much of a bandwidth spike are we talking about if we post a picture to Rantburg? I'm at the bottom of a 256K dyn DNS DSL; will my provider cancel me, or will the Rantburgers come after me out of frustration that my pic loads so slow?
Posted by: Asedwich   2005-01-19 8:23:49 PM  

#8  How did this guy know he swallowed a toothbrush 22 years ago? Is this one of these things where he said "Hey watch this shit...?
Posted by: John Q. Citizen   2005-01-19 7:10:01 PM  

#7  I hope they have equal success in removing this gentleman's head from his ass.
Posted by: BH   2005-01-19 2:04:49 PM  

#6  LOL, just as I figured Em. Steal it outright to avoid such untoward events.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-01-19 1:38:52 PM  

#5  What kind of toothbrush? Mine never last that long.
Posted by: John Q. Citizen   2005-01-19 1:03:20 PM  

#4  I linked directly to the picture on someone else's srever and they saw the bandwidth spike from RB and killed it...

:: grin ::
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-01-19 10:36:42 AM  

#3  What happened to the adult sized Operation game picture? That was strange on 4 levels.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-01-19 8:33:10 AM  

#2  And when they get past the floss, they'll be able to dislodge that tube of Crest from his colon...for that completely minty fresh feeling!
Posted by: smn   2005-01-19 3:24:42 AM  

#1  oh my gosh...if I go to OSR reading of rantburg...I will miss graphics like this one.
Posted by: 2b   2005-01-19 12:56:04 AM  

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