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JERUSALEM (AP) -- It's the bizarre, nightmarish stuff of a child's nursery rhyme: An Israeli woman swallowed a cockroach and right after it, down went a fork she used to try to fish the critter out of her throat.

A winged cockroach jumped into the woman's mouth as she was cleaning her home in a village in northern Israel this week. And as the story goes, the 32-year-old woman tried to scoop the bug out with a fork but swallowed it as well.

"It's a bit of a strange story," said Dr. Nikola Adid, who operated on the woman on Tuesday to remove the fork from her stomach -- the bug was already digested. "This is the first time I've ever encountered anything like this. None of my medical colleagues in this country have heard of anything similar either."

An X-ray showed the fork, lodged sideways in her stomach.

Adid, a surgeon at the Poria Hospital in Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee, removed the fork with laparoscopic surgery, a minimally invasive procedure performed through a tiny incision a patient's abdomen.

The woman is recovering well, Adid said -- better off than the old woman of the children's rhyme:

"There was an old woman who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. Perhaps she'll die."

HOLY S!!

That's really <i>fork'd up</i>

When i was working EMS we had a kid in new orleans who had roach crawl in his ear a fairly common problem here. In stead of going to the doctor and having it fished out, the mother just poured tobasco sauce in the kids ears. Let's just say this burns badly.

Yes, there is truly an idiot born every minute.

"Trample the wounded...hurdle the dead"

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JERUSALEM (AP) -- It's the bizarre, nightmarish stuff of a child's nursery rhyme: An Israeli woman swallowed a cockroach and right after it, down went a fork she used to try to fish the critter out of her throat.






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Oh dear Lord. Cannibalism! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> <img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_clown.gif border=0 align=middle>

"Visualise world liberty. You leave me alone I leave you alone but if anyone messes with either of us we team up & kill them"

Edit to add: Let me be the first to point out she swallowed a flying cockroach AND a fork! After she recovers, and washes her mouth out. She might be a promising indivual. <img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle>



Edited by - Lunatock on Jul 13 2003 12:21 PM

Edited by - Lunatock on Jul 13 2003 12:23 PM

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