“A bulimic woman who stuck a butter knife down her throat to prove she no longer had a gag reflex ended up swallowing it after she started laughing. The 30-year-old Atlanta woman was showing off to friends when the item of cutlery became firmly lodged in her oesophagus – shown here in these staggering X-rays. Vomiting blood and complaining of chest pain, she was rushed to Emory University School of Medicine. Doctors removed the knife through an endoscopy, and said the patient did not suffer any further damage to her throat or stomach. But they did reveal that the woman, who has not yet been named, had swallowed a knife four years earlier. That time, they added, she did need surgery to retrieve it.” w/ photos
