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Useful AND not a tumor!

by JGordon on Jun. 05th, 2008
in Human Organism

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The actual towel was much smaller: but there was a person behind it. Well...around it.
Courtesy Silver StarreWell, there’s some good news out there for at least one living human. A Japanese man went into surgery a week or two ago after his doctors told him that a tumor was causing his chronic abdominal pain. After opening him up, the surgeon discovered that the “tumor” was actually a surgical towel, left in the man from an operation he had undergone in 1983!

Talk about a red letter day! No tumors, and a free towel. I can’t remember the last time I got a free towel. I mean, usually people won’t keep towels for 25 years, and this one may have turned a greenish-blue color from spending a couple decades inside an abdominal cavity, but still…not a bad deal.

What an odd thing, though. I suppose I shouldn’t hold it against anyone—I don’t think I could perform an appendectomy, so far be it from me to expect a surgeon to be able to do everything I can do easily, like not leave towels inside people.

Interesting.

I see…

Good to know.