{"id":95432,"date":"2014-07-03T23:56:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T19:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=95432"},"modified":"2014-07-03T23:56:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T19:56:38","slug":"i-dont-feel-quite-write-doctors-discover-womans-stomach-aches-were-caused-by-four-inch-fountain-pen-that-she-swallowed-six-months-previously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=95432","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don\u2019t feel quite write\u2026\u2019: Doctors discover woman\u2019s stomach aches were caused by four-inch fountain pen that she swallowed six months previously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pen-stuck-inside-woman2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-95431\" alt=\"pen stuck inside woman2\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pen-stuck-inside-woman2.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pen-stuck-inside-woman2.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/pen-stuck-inside-woman2-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a>Doctors who performed an x-ray on a woman who suffered a stomach ache for six months were shocked to discover a fountain pen lodged inside her.<\/p>\n<p>Student Shing Fang, 20, went to a hospital in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, after the persistent pain became so unbearable she could no longer eat.<\/p>\n<p>When doctors carried out an endoscopy, by inserting a camera through her mouth and into her stomach, they were amazed to find a long thin object badly corroded by stomach acid..<\/p>\n<p>After ordering an x-ray, there were shocked when they realised that the four-inch long object was a fountain pen that had been there for around half a year.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors operated immediately and removed the pen.<\/p>\n<p>They warned that if it had been there any longer, it could have led to peritonitis, or even death.<\/p>\n<p>As to how the pen got there, the young woman said she had no memory at all of swallowing it.<\/p>\n<p>However, she agreed that it might well have been ingested after drinking too much when celebrating good exam results.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors who performed an x-ray on a woman who suffered a stomach ache for six&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}