The thing is, he isn’t even the first Vietnamese bloke this year to end up in hospital with this problem. I wrote the previous one up in an article in Fortean TImes on infelicitous insertions earlier this year. “On 20 March a man arrived at the Hai Ha District Medical Centre in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam, with extreme abdominal pain. X-rays and ultrasound scans showed that there was an unidentified foreign body in his abdominal cavity and that he was suffering from intestinal perforation. Given the pain the man was in, medics decided to operate immediately and on opening the patient up were startled to find that the foreign body was a 30cm (1ft) eel, and that it was still alive. They extracted the wriggling creature, then removed the damaged portion of his intestine, creating a stoma, and stabilized the patient, leaving him with only mild abdominal discomfort. The doctors believed that the eel had crawled up the patient’s intestine from his anus and had got into his abdominal cavity by biting through his intestine. The patient could not, however, provide a clear answer as to exactly how an eel might have got into his anus, and the hospital was far too professional to speculate. - source:nguoiduatin.vn, 21 Mar 2024”
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