Typically, you get an x-ray when you’ve hurt a limb or think you may have injured yourself in a way that has impacted your bones. X-Rays reveal typically reveal fractures and tears, but what they also sometimes reveal are solid objects that have been swallowed, punctured, or forcefully inserted into the body. Things like bullets, marbles, sometimes knives show up on the film and shock doctors and nurses, but that’s only the start of it. The following X-Ray films will have you cringing in horror and asking yourself…
…how did that get there?
Cutting to the Chase
A 52-year-old woman, whose x-ray you see above, swallowed over 75 pieces of plastic cutlery. Attention readers: do not do this!