Fast-food surprise found lodged in man’s lung

[SapperSix]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32899060/ns/health-more_health_news/

RALEIGH, N.C. - Doctors say a North Carolina man who was plagued with coughing fits should be OK now that they have removed a 1-inch piece of plastic from his lung, where it had rested since he apparently inhaled it nearly two years ago while sucking down a soft drink at a Wendy's restaurant.

Doctors at Duke University Medical Center say the plastic fragment of an eating utensil — with the Wendy's logo still legible on the side — was likely to blame for the coughing, fatigue and pneumonia spells that plagued John Manley for almost two years.

They pulled the fast-food foreign object from Manley's left lung during a Sept. 10 surgery. The 50-year-old Wilmington resident said he probably inhaled it while gulping a drink from Wendy's.

[Leader Desslock]

I've heard of people "inhaling their food", but I wasn't aware that anyone inhaled their utensils as well.

You learn something new every day on AN.

[DavenIII]

how did a piece of a plastic utensil get into his drink anyhow....?

[loplop]

Saw this on the Today show this morning as I was getting some breakfast. I know some people at Wendy's HQ back in Ohio that are having cows this morning.

[tenshi_a]

how did a piece of a plastic utensil get into his drink anyhow....?

I was thinking - if he swallowed it 10 years ago, why is he so certain it was from a drink when it's part of a bit of plastic cutlery?

[Caster13]

I smell a lawsuit. A BIG one.

[Vaikyuko]

I'm more curious about how the hell he managed to inhale a piece of plastic while drinking, and NOT have noticed something was going down the wrong tube.

I mean...I drink something and accidentally aspirate some of it, I'm hacking up a lungful, not pleasantly continuing my day, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to ignore a piece of plastic entering my lungs.

[fujyoshi]

how in the world do you inhale something big and plastic and it stay in your lungs for 2 years o_O I mean if something felt weird going in that shoulda been the clue right there "oh yea maybe somethings wrong" or whatever.

[waltsoph3]

:x Ooooooo man that just sucks.

[Broand]

This is the last straw.

[fujyoshi]

I still wanna know how you do that? Some crap gets lodged in your throat or whatever and then you don't even discover it till a year or so later o_O whadafrik?

[Bethanne]

how in the world do you not know you have something in your lungs?!! And how did he not feel in when it happen??!!!!

[Trefellin]

This is the last straw.

:lol:


There was a story about a man who inhaled a seed and a small tree started to grow in his lung.

[Leader Desslock]

^ Which later became the premise for Shel Silverstein's story The Taking Tree: Appleseed's Revenge.

[Ridley-X4]

And to think that this was the same chain where someone found a finger in their food.

[fujyoshi]

And to think that this was the same chain where someone found a finger in their food.

wasn't there some other lady who found a rat head in there peanuts or something?

[Onigiri]

And to think that this was the same chain where someone found a finger in their food.

Sort of. The lady put the finger in her chili so she could file a fraudulent insurance claim.

[JoeStrummer]

I failed pretty hard once, by biting open a plastic package while inhaling, I got this piece of plastic lodged in my throat and had to throw up everywhere before I died. Good times.

[fujyoshi]

I failed pretty hard once, by biting open a plastic package while inhaling, I got this piece of plastic lodged in my throat and had to throw up everywhere before I died. Good times.

that doesn't sound like very "good times" -.-