Man Spends Eight Years with Metal Chopstick Stuck in His Throat

From odditycentral.com

A man in Dalian, China, lived with a long metal chopstick stuck in his throat for 8 years before finally having it removed by doctors.Most people couldn’t spend more than a few minutes with a 12-centimetre metal rod stuck in their throat, but one Chinese man lived like this for eight years, before finally having it removed by a team of doctors. 46-year-old Mr Wang recently showed up at the Dalian Municipal Central Hospital in Liaoning Province complaining about unbearable pain in his throat and a foreign body sensation. Following an X-ray exam, doctors were shocked to see a 12-centimetre shaft stuck in the ... (full story)