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.

[Dallas59]

Guy must have been really thirsty....

[HiTech RedNeck]

How would a bit of trash like that have gotten into a drink?

[gov_bean_ counter]

OMG, beating back the double entendres right now. Clean it up, clean it up....

[Yo-Yo]

Cha-CHING!

[Blueflag]

Ya have to eat a Frosty with a spoon if it’s really cold and stiff ... coulda broken off part of the spoon.

[paulycy]

“Doctor, my eye hurts every time I drink coffee!”

“You gotta take the spoon out of your mug first.”

[gov_bean_ counter]

"Doctor, will I be able to play the violin when my broken arm heals"?

Sure you will.

That's great because I couldn't before...

[luvbach1]

Ya have to eat a Frosty with a spoon if it’s really cold and stiff ... coulda broken off part of the spoon.

Best theory so far.

[paulycy]

Patient: Doctor, you’ve got to help me. I think I’m a kleptomaniac.

Doctor: Don’t worry. I think there’s something you can take for that.

[edzo4]

logo on the piece of plastic,

very bad for wendys

very good for his lawyer

[bagster]

“Doctor, my arm hurts when i go like this.”

“Don’t go like that”

[Puppage]

Doctor: "Mrs. Klein your check came back"

Patient: "So did my cough"

[AnAmericanMother]

True story:

I was being wheeled into surgery for my busted hand. Asked my surgeon, "Doc, will I be able to play the piano?"

He deadpanned, "That depends on whether you could play before."

Me: "That depends on who you talk to."

He did a splendid job. My little finger on my RH was basically detached - put in two stainless steel screws and reassembled the tendons - I can play the piano AND the harpsichord, as well as sew and type, just as well as I could before. Whew!

[Right Wing Assault]

I bet the guy inhaled it on purpose just to try to win a big lawsuit. ;-)

[gov_bean_ counter]

Great story!!!!

[Right Wing Assault]

Ya have to eat a Frosty with a spoon

My rule is that I only use a straw on a Frosty. It's really a challenge when they are cold. My face muscles get a workout.

[Doc Savage]

It wouldn't unless either placed there by an employee or placed in the drink by the customer re: a potential fraudulent Wendy's lawsuit. How exactly would one suck up a piece this large through a Wendy's straw? Second, one would immediately feel the sensation of a sharp plastic shard in your throat area and in your lung even worse!

Merely a conjecture but I suspect he may have done this himself for the purpose of a lawsuit. It seems highly unlikely one wouldn't immediately sense a problem and seek medical assistance which might have discovered the problem.

[marvlus]

Best theory so far.

Think he was inhaling that Frosty?

[Izzy Dunne]

Think he was inhaling that Frosty?

They're AWFULLY hard to keep lit...

[ravingnutter]

Ya have to eat a Frosty with a spoon if it’s really cold and stiff ... coulda broken off part of the spoon.

Maybe so...but it looks to me like that is the wrong end of the spoon to be eating off of. Here is a pic of a Wendy's spoon in a Frosty.

Compare it to the pic of the swallowed spoon portion. Isn't that the end of the handle? If so, that had to have been done on purpose