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Man’s lost nose ring found in his lung
He has kept the E-ray as proof
A piercing enthusiast in the US discovered a nose ring he lost five years ago at an unusual place – his lung.
Till now, 35-year-old, Joey Lykins, assumed the ring had fallen out when he was sleeping. But he did not know that it was lodged in his lung all these years. He had given up and replaced the nasal ornament, according to news reports.
Mr Lykins has 12 other piercings but rediscovered his missing nose ring in a painful way.
“I thought maybe I’d swallowed it. I looked everywhere. I flipped the bed over. I did everything.
“One night, I was coughing so hard that my back was starting to hurt, I felt like something was blocking my airways, and I thought I was sick,” he said.
He was taken to a hospital where the doctors initially thought it was pneumonia. But the X-ray shocked them after the results showed a 0.6 inch nose ring embedded inside the upper left lobe of his lung and was lucky that the ring did not puncture his lung.
“The doctor came in and showed me the picture and said ‘does this look familiar?’ I was like ‘you’ve got to be kidding me? I’ve been looking for that’,” he told UK-based Metro.
Mr Lykins has kept the X-ray images and photographs from the surgery when the ring being extracted, as proof for those who cast doubt about the entire story. -ndtv.com
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
