A Vietnamese man had a live eel surgically removed from his abdomen — and doctors believe it slid up his anus. The stomach-turning discovery was made when an unidentified man, 34, went to the Hai Ha District Medical Center in Quang Ninh Province with severe abdominal pain on Wednesday, according to a local report. Doctors … Read more
Vickie Thompson had only a few blissful hours with her newborn son, Charlie, when the seemingly impossible revealed itself. On August 12, Charlie was born seemingly as any baby should. Thompson, 36, had just enough time to begin bonding and feeding when Charlie’s body apparently began to shut down. Unable to awaken the sleeping baby, … Read more
A Philadelphia woman is speaking out about undergoing a proctocolectomy in her mid-twenties, saying living without her rectum and colon now feels “pretty normal.” Maggie Tretton, now 29, underwent the operation in 2019 after battling Crohn’s disease for more than a decade. “I feel completely different, but at the same time, completely normal,” Tretton said … Read more