gamehead200 Posted July 14, 2003 Share Posted July 14, 2003 JERUSALEM (AP) -- It's the bizarre, nightmarish stuff of a child's nursery rhyme: An Israeli woman swallowed a cockroach and right after it, down went a fork she used to try to fish the critter out of her throat. A winged cockroach jumped into the woman's mouth as she was cleaning her home in a village in northern Israel this week. And as the story goes, the 32-year-old woman tried to scoop the bug out with a fork but swallowed it as well. "It's a bit of a strange story," said Dr. Nikola Adid, who operated on the woman on Tuesday to remove the fork from her stomach -- the bug was already digested. "This is the first time I've ever encountered anything like this. None of my medical colleagues in this country have heard of anything similar either." An X-ray showed the fork, lodged sideways in her stomach. Adid, a surgeon at the Poria Hospital in Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee, removed the fork with laparoscopic surgery, a minimally invasive procedure performed through a tiny incision a patient's abdomen. The woman is recovering well, Adid said -- better off than the old woman of the children's rhyme: "There was an old woman who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. Perhaps she'll die."News Source: CNN.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmondScar Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 OMG that is creepy, i sent it too half of my friends and they freaked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rstryker Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 OMG that is creepy, i sent it too half of my friends and they freaked! why only half??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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