Emma
Phillips a student teacher had to undergo surgery after trying to remove the
object, even going as far as using a fork handle and BBQ prongs to remove
it.
Emma, 24, from Wallasey, Merseyside, said:
“We were looking around the bed
in case it had fallen out. When I leaned on my stomach I could feel it
vibrating – it was stuck low down and at one point was even wedged behind my
hip.”“For a while Lee was suggesting all kinds of wonderful options.'' She said to Sun UK.
“He tried a kitchen fork handle,
which we won’t be using again, and said he could feel it at one point but that
it was too far up – it was a goner. He tried BBQ prongs too but after a certain
point – after an hour of trying – we knew were going to have to go to hospital.
We were both a bit shocked.”
Emma
said:
“We’d both been drinking the
night before so we couldn’t drive. I had to make the most embarrassing call to
the ambulance at 7am. The call handler said
‘tell me exactly what the problem is’ so I had to tell him.”
Emma
said:
“At that point it was just
more surreal than anything. I didn’t feel much pain at that point I was
in too much shock. The doctors were really good – they all moved quite quickly
and were so reassuring telling me they saw it quite often which was quite a
relief.
At first we were jokey about it
but then realised it wasn’t much of a joke especially when there was talk of
going through my stomach if they couldn’t get it.” “I think before that I
thought of it as just a little operation to get it out, I still wasn’t taking
it that seriously. When he said that – that only when I woke up would I know whether
they would have to cut me open – it was really scary.”
At 12pm Emma underwent the surgery
which involved placing a camera down her throat and the surgeon pressing on her
stomach before manually extracting it.
Emma said:
“My daughter was staying with my
mum and dad as I stayed at Lee’s the night before.
“I wasn’t going to tell them but
then I was going into surgery I knew we were going to have to say something so
I told my mum the real reason. I just took some painkillers and was told not to
use stuff like that again until I was ready. I’ve learnt that I’ll need
to be a bit more careful in the future.
“Lee’s not been scarred by it –
he just thinks it’s funny. I think he should have one up his bum and take one
for the team.”We weren’t going to do anything about it because of the
embarrassment – there’s a big taboo about it – but we knew we needed
help.
“I want to say a massive thank you to the ambulance
crew and Wrexham Hospital staff who were really good, really reassuring and
non-judgemental. There is a big taboo about this, but it really isn’t a big
deal. You hear about people becoming really ill or even dying because they’re
too embarrassed to get help – I would hate that to happen to someone.”

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