A doctor at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore got the biggest shock of his life when he found an entire octopus stuck in the throat of one of his patients.
Before going to the hospital, the patient, a Singaporean man, had trouble swallowing and pain in his throat. He knew something was wrong when he started throwing up after eating octopus.
The New York Post said that when doctors did a CT scan on the man, they found a very dense lump in his oesophagus.
After that, the patient has an esophagogastroduodenoscopy, which is an examination of the digestive system using a small, flexible tube with a camera. This showed that the tentacled octopus was stuck 2 inches from the border between the oesophagus and the stomach.
First efforts to push or pull out the intruder failed, so doctors used an endoscope to get around the octopus and into the stomach, where they bent it backwards. The head of the animal was then grabbed with forceps and pulled out of the person.
After surgery, the Singaporean patient did well and was able to go home after just two days.
