The Human Body Is Amazing: Man Unknowingly Had A Knife Stuck Inside His Chest For 8 Years
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TANZANIA, Africa (WKRC) — Doctors discovered a knife that had been lodged in a man's chest for years after he visited a hospital when his chest began leaking pus.
According to PEOPLE, citing a report from the National Library of Medicine, an unidentified man from Tanzania went to the hospital after noticing his right nipple was leaking pus.
The report states that the man, 44, wasn't suffering from "chest pain, difficulty breathing, cough or fever" at the time of his visit and was "otherwise healthy."
When speaking to doctors at the hospital, the man revealed that he had been "involved in a violent altercation" and had suffered "multiple cuts to his face, back, chest and abdomen."
Anybody else suddenly very scared that they've got a knife lodged into them from 8 years ago that they somehow don’t remember? Yeah, me too. I mean nothing rings a bell off the top of my head, but that doesn’t seem to matter much considering the situation we’ve found ourselves in here.
This guy had one lounging inside of him for 8 years! That’s two whole presidencies (shoutout Rico Bosco). More than anything, I think that we’ve gotta applaud the calmness and coolness of this man for the past 8 years. Again, I have no experience in this realm, but I’d have to imagine that even one wrong move throughout this time results in certain death for you. So much as a bump on the road sounds like way too big a risk, so shoutout to this guy for being an absolute chiller for the past decade and presumably not making a single sudden movement.
(WKRC) The report states that the man's body was able to “encapsulate the foreign body within a fibrous capsule, limiting inflammation and tissue damage,” but had began to show "serious complications" when the pus began leaking.
The human body really does never cease to amaze me, though. It ate this knife and took it on board like it was nothing. I’m not exactly sure what it means for the body to ‘encapsulate the foreign body with a fibroid capsule’ and I refuse to look it up out of principle, but in my head it sounds like the body basically formed a cocoon around the knife so as to not let it stab the body. I’m still not so sure how the body can live comfortably with a knife in it, but for some reason some bodies out there draw the line at a single peanut. We still need to figure that one out.
Oh and last thing, I’m not abreast to what the initial altercation was about, but the knife wielder couldn’t have done our friend here a solid and told him that his knife was no longer attached to the handle? I get that the heat of battle is the heat of battle, but that wers off pretty quick Could’ve saved our boy from a pus* filled nipple and surgery.
*Instead of “pus filled nipple” I wanted to say “pussy nipple” here, but is that a word? I mean it’s obviously a word, but I’m talking about when the pronunciation would be PUS-EEE instead of POO-SEE. I feel like it has to be a word, but I also see why it wouldn’t be used much due to the possible confusion that it could cause. If there's a wordsmith around here I'd love some clarification on this one. Thanks.