{{Doctors operating on a man who was taken to hospital with stomach pains discovered a 9in long plastic fork that he swallowed a decade ago.}}<\/p>\n
Lee Gardner was taken to Barnsley Hospital when he started vomiting blood and having cramps.<\/p>\n
He said he was told the fork, which he swallowed 10 years ago, would pass through his system naturally so he did not think to mention it to doctors.<\/p>\n
Surgeon Hanis Shiwani said Gardner was lucky there was not more damage.<\/p>\n
Gardner, from Cudworth, Barnsley, said: “I can’t believe it. I have never had any problems with my stomach except once a couple of years ago I remember thinking I felt like something had lodged when I bent over awkwardly.<\/p>\n
“But the advice at the time was that it would just pass through my system, and as that was so many years before I really didn’t think it could be the fork.”<\/p>\n
{{‘Handful of cases’}}<\/p>\n
Gardner said he was playing around with the disposable fork in his mouth and gagged, accidentally swallowing it, but it had never caused him problems.<\/p>\n
He added: “While they were looking inside me with the camera the doctor said ‘are you sure you’ve not swallowed anything?’ I said no but when he asked again ‘are you sure, I can see prongs of what appears to be a fork’, I remembered accidentally swallowing one years and years ago.”<\/p>\n
Doctors found that the prongs had pressed on the stomach lining causing an ulcer that led to the bleeding.<\/p>\n
Shiwani said: “If something does get lodged, then normally a patient would become ill almost immediately.<\/p>\n
“This is why Lee’s case is so uncharacteristic, not just because the object is a fork but because we believe there are only a handful of cases reported like this where a foreign object has been inside someone for such a long time.<\/p>\n
“Lee is extremely lucky that the fork hasn’t caused more damage but we are confident he will make a full recovery.”<\/p>\n
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