[Dhaka Tribune] A bottle has been recovered from the stomach of a patient at a clinic in Barisal city.Being a highly trained medical professional and all (I once wrote a web page for a nurse) I can tell that ain't his stomach. I can also tell that musta really hurt. Terrible, when you fall off a bridge and land on a bottle like that, ain't it?
Dr Jahangir Hossain Selim, surgeon of Health Care Clinic in the city, said the patient, of Farashganj under Lalmohon upazila of Bhola district, came to the clinic on the night of August 17 with severe stomach pain.
"Wholly crap that hurts!"
| The patient and his attendants at first claimed that a ’Djinn' had put the bottle inside the stomach. Later they said the bottle entered through his rectum after he fell off a bamboo-bridge into a canal. |
"That's right, Doc! He falls of this bridge and the genie pops right outta the bottle and then he shoves the bottle right up his--"
"Ow, Doc! Get it out!"
Later they said the bottle entered through his rectum after he fell off a bamboo-bridge into a canal.
"That's right, Doc! Right off the bridge! I seen it! I think the genie pushed him!"
After diagnosed by X-ray the doctors confirmed the existence of the bottle in the stomach of the patient and referred him for surgery at Barisal Sher-E-Bangla Medical College.
"Doctor, I don't think that's the patient's stomach..."
"Button yer lip, nurse! There's laws against that sortta thing! This is a Moslem country!"
"Sorry, doctor. Yer right. He does seem to have a jug in his lung... I mean stomach!"
However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
the patient requested the doctors that they perform the surgery at that clinic.
"Doc! Y'gotta get it out! It ain't empty yet, Doc!"
A team of surgeons of the clinic led by Dr. Jahangir Hossain Selim then removed the bottle from inside the patient after two hours’ of surgery early Thursday.
"Nurse, you may start the timer!"
"The patient is now stable and improving.
"Yeesh! Where am I? Gosh my... ummm... liver hurts!"
We are not yet sure how the bottle went inside his stomach. It was an event unprecedented in my whole career," Dr. Jahangir told.
"Hey! Youse guys drank it all!"
