19 August 2013

There's always time for lubricant!

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I was considering letting this one through to the keeper but Nik The Pig has prevailed upon me.

The Canberra Times is having a field day with the trials of a 70 year old man who put a fork where it shouldn’t have been.

The fork was not visible but doctors were able to feel it from the outside and X-rays showed its position.

Doctors considered several retrieval options before deciding to pull the fork free using forceps and “copious lubrication” while the patient was under a general anaesthetic.

The International Journal of Surgery has picked up the unusual case and from hence it’s returned to Canberra.

So if you know a 70 year old who was walking funny a few months ago be careful around their cutlery.

UPDATE: Meanwhile CanMeme has had a return to form:

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For those not brave enough to click on jazzamac’s link, I’ll just leave this quote here for your amusement;

“…needles, pencils, ball point pens, pen lids, garden wire, copper wire, speaker wire, safety pins, Allen keys, wire-like objects (telephone cables, rubber tubes, feeding tubes, straws, string), toothbrushes, household batteries, light bulbs, marbles, cotton tip swabs, plastic cups, thermomethers, plants and vegetables (carrot, cucumber, beans, hay, bamboo sticks, grass leaves), parts of animals (leeches, squirrel tail, snakes, bones), toys, pieces of latex gloves, blue tack, Intrauterine Contraceptive devices (IUCD), tampons, pessaries, powders (cocaine), fluids (glue, hot wax).”

It made the Daily Mail.

I know Canberra isn’t exciting, but having to resort to sticking cutlery up your Jap’s for fun is a bit extreme by anyone’s standard.

Holden Caulfield10:54 am 20 Aug 13

This fad will soon pass.

Some tynes you have to wonder what is prong with some people…

Jezuz man, just take viagra. Fork is old school for a reason.

re: consent

I have had another thought. The patient gave consent for the article to be published in a medical journal. He might be a little surprised that it has turned up in his local newspaper.

The concept of “informed consent” is an interesting one, as often the research subject has no idea what they are letting themselves in for (i.e. it wasn’t really “informed”), and in this case even the doctors may not have predicted the story would go viral (or “feral”, as someone said to me yesterday).

IP

johnboy said :

Well he’s gone global now:

https://news.google.com/news?ncl=d3Ni2EPrLbMn8SMwgQn4hXPRaC1CM&q=International+Journal+of+Surgery+Cases&lr=English&hl=en

May as well book it on Letterman.

I can’t wait for the movie. No, hang on, I can wait for the movie. No that sounds wrong too. I have no interest at all in the movie.

IP

Wily_Bear said :

Isn’t anyone else even slightly perturbed that the hospital released this information? Even though they haven’t identified him, what possible reason was there to make this public? One can only surmise it was to titilate rather than educate.

Hope the poor fella hasn’t done any permanent damage.

No, not perturbed. Medical journals are full of case studies, and it is a valid scientific research method. If you check the actual journal article (link supplied by someone else earlier) you will find that the patient gave consent for the article to be published.

If it was to titillate the journal article would have been headlined “Dickhead sticks fork in dick head” rather than “AN UNUSUAL URETHRAL FOREIGN BODY”. Other doctors around the world will now have a better idea of how to remove voluntarily or accidentally inserted “foreign bodies”.

The Canberra Times’ reason for reporting the article is another matter altogether. But there is an element of “public interest” – is this really what we want our hospitals doing, removing foreign objects inserted for sexual gratification? Haven’t they better things to be doing? Maybe he or other people can be shamed into being a little less dangerously daft. Or shamed into taking out health insurance so that the Little Company of Mary hospitals get do the operation, hopefully with a mandatory preoperative lecture from a nun.

The fact he gave consent is more perturbing. He may be getting a buzz out of the publicity, maybe thinking up his next challenge.

IP

He asked his wife for a f*ck but she thought he said fork.

Holden Caulfield10:51 pm 19 Aug 13

Stick a fork in it, he’s cooked.

Holden Caulfield10:50 pm 19 Aug 13

Girt_Hindrance said :

Very nearly ended up under the knife. Stick to spooning.

A multi-pronged approach?

Isn’t anyone else even slightly perturbed that the hospital released this information? Even though they haven’t identified him, what possible reason was there to make this public? One can only surmise it was to titilate rather than educate.

Hope the poor fella hasn’t done any permanent damage.

Girt_Hindrance8:36 pm 19 Aug 13

Very nearly ended up under the knife. Stick to spooning.

Oh, and damn Julianne Moore is hot.

Deref said :

I hate it when that happens.

Always tie a string to your fork before inserting it anywhere.

Depends which end you’re inserting first…

IrishPete said :

dannybear said :

It appears to have been a cocktail fork.

I just realised this was a pun.

IP

It is the white caviar of puns.

And IP is fixated!

dannybear said :

It appears to have been a cocktail fork.

I just realised this was a pun.

IP

johnboy said :

it appears freaking huge for where it ended up!

I thought it might have been a barbecue fork. Working up to a garden fork.

Eventually he will probably do a Michael Hutchence.

IP

It appears to have been a cocktail fork.

it appears freaking huge for where it ended up!

IrishPete said :

Was there anyone else involved, I wonder? I should stop wondering.

IP

From reading the doco it seems they’re sure he did it for autoerotcism purposes. Seems to me that the guy would have been doing similar activities over a long period, its not like you’d be able to wake up one morning and thread a fork through the eye of the needle without some serious prep work.

Some pics of the extraction in the journal article…if you’re interested:

http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/2210-2612/PIIS2210261213002320.pdf

aaaahhhhh my eyes! Now I’m going to have to stick a fork into my ear to gouge out that image.

I hate it when that happens.

Always tie a string to your fork before inserting it anywhere.

Was there anyone else involved, I wonder? I should stop wondering.

IP

I was going to say something about someone having a forked tongue but I’d better leave that one alone…

Who ever said Canberra is boring.

And I will forever look at 70 year-old men in a different light.

IP

“get some pork on your fork”

Or even, get some fork in your pork.

Holden Caulfield3:38 pm 19 Aug 13

Gives a whole new meaning to “get some pork on your fork”

Five stars! 😆

A three pronged approach that has no doubt left him very red faced and humiliated..

I guessing he won’t forket about that experience in a hurry.

What a Forking W*anker!

Holden Caulfield3:11 pm 19 Aug 13

Cutlery is in the eye of the beholder.

Codders111 said :

Well, the CT has sunk to a new low.

The public’s need for a snicker outweighs good taste.

He dis-Splayd poor judgement.

U are just poking fun at a persons misforktune. Very sad.

Codders111 said :

Well, the CT has sunk to a new low.

Pretty sure that’s occupied by the guy who had the thought process that ended up with the end result being that sticking a fork down their fun pipe was a swell idea.

thebrownstreak692:27 pm 19 Aug 13

Sounds forking painful.

Well, the CT has sunk to a new low.

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