NC Doctor Removes Plastic Fragment Lodged in Lung

Yahoo News ^ | 09/18/2009 | Yahoo News

[Dallas59]

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.

[ladyvet]

It wasn’t a Frosty. It was a drink. The guy said he liked to take “big gulps.”

[Barb4Bush]

I'm a really suspicious person and even I wouldn't believe someone would purposely leave a piece of plastic in his lung for 2 years. My best guess is that the Wendy's in questions was “recycling” (reusing) their cups and didn't notice the piece of trash in that one. I'm also guessing he did not use a straw to drink his soda. Movie theatres do this with their cups quite often. You should always crush your soda cups at theatres or you might get it back again next week.

[Skenderbej]

If you’ve eaten at Wendy’s in the last couple of years, your question would answer itself!

[HiTech RedNeck]

I cannot imagine who, SOBER, would ever inhale a piece of plastic to keep in his lungs for two years. That’s the key methinks, SOBER. May have been soused out of his gourd on alcohol or some drug.