Painful and Long Term: Needle removed from bum - after 31 years

A Chinese pensioner can finally sit in comfort after doctors removed a broken syringe needle which had been stuck in his bottom for 31 years.
Lao Du, 55, of Zhengzhou, said the needle was left in his rear by an 'amateurish' doctor in 1978, reports the Zhongyuan Network.

"I got a cold and went to see an amateurish doctor in my hometown village, but the needle broke off once it pierced my bum," he said.

"I was sent to a provincial hospital immediately. After being hospitalised for nine days, doctors checked me but failed to find the broken needle."

Lao Du said he always believed the broken needle was still in his bottom and four or five years ago he began to feel sharp pains regularly in his rear.

"Even walking has become a suffering to me," he said.

"I sought help from too many hospitals but none of them dared to do the surgery for me as they are not quite sure if they can find a tiny broken needle from 31 years ago."

Du tried his luck one last time at the Zhengzhou People's Hospital where doctors agreed to try to find the broken needle.

Chief surgeon Fu Konglong, who finally found the needle tip after three hours of surgery, said: "It was very detailed work. We had to look for it in every muscle fibre."

News that you will not believe: Russian man survives five storey fall - twice!

A Russian man survived after downing three bottles of vodka and leaping from a fifth floor balcony - twice. Alexei Roskov says he jumped the second time because he couldn't take his wife's nagging about the first time. Wife Yekaterina had watched in horror as her drunken hubsand opened the kitchen window of their Moscow apartment, and hurled himself out. Astonishingly Mr Roskov, 22, survived and managed to stagger back upstairs with barely a scratch after the 50ft fall. But while his wife called for an ambulance and began to scold him, he jumped again. Amazed medics treated Mr Roskov for minor cuts and bruises before releasing him. Mr Roskov says he is now teetotal after giving up drinking, and added: "Now I can say just one thing - I was very lucky. "I have no idea why I jumped the first time but when I came back up and I heard my wife screaming angrily at me I thought it was best if I left the room again - out of the window."

Strange but True News; Rare shark found - and eaten!

10 April, 2009--Fishermen in the Philippines have accidentally caught and then eaten one of the rarest sharks in the world. The megamouth shark is one of the most elusive species in the world - the one eaten by the fishermen was only the 41st ever spotted, reports Sky News. The four-metre, half-tonne fish was accidentally snared by fishermen trawling for mackerel off the coast of Donsol. A WWF representative said the shark was butchered and its meat sautéed in coconut milk as a local delicacy, against the conservation group's advice. Ironically, the coastal town of Donsol has earned a global reputation for marine conservation. Campaigners recently convinced the locals to stop butchering giant whale sharks which feed in nearby waters. The town prides itself as being the whale shark capital of the world and marine tourism is vital to the town's economy. The megamouth shark is a fairly recent scientific discovery. The first specimen was caught off the coast of Hawaii in 1976. Only eight megamouths have ever been encountered in Philippine seas. They have also been spotted off California, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Australia

Easter Holiday Entry -2009

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