A Filipino
man who had been experiencing sharp chest pains in cold weather, learned
that he had a four-inch-long knife blade lodged in his chest after doing
a routine X-ray.
25-year-old Kent Ryan Tomao was more than a bit confused when doctors
told him that he had an an “object resembling a knife” stuck in his
chest, very close to one of his lungs. He had undergone an X-ray exam
required to apply for a mining job in Agusan del Sur, and never imagined
there was anything wrong with him. He told doctors in Kidapawan City
that he had sometimes experienced stabbing pains in his chest on
unusually cold days, but didn’t think too much of them. He certainly
didn’t think there was a knife blade in his chest.
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“I always wonder why I feel some pain in my chest when the weather is
cold. But I have no idea there is a knife in my chest,” Tomao told a
local radio station.
Asked if he had any idea how the blade ended up in his chest, Kent told
physicians that he had been the victim of a stabbing over a year ago. He
was allegedly riding a motorbike one day, last June, when he was
attacked and stabbed by a gang of youths. He didn’t remember much about
the incident, except that he was almost lifeless when he was brought to
the hospital, where doctors managed to save him.
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Kent had always assumed that doctors performed all the necessary tests
before releasing him, and he certainly never imagined they had left a
knife blade in his chest. He never had any reason to, as he only
experienced chest pains during cold weather.
Despite the shocking discovery, the 25-year-old man said that he has no
plans of suing the doctor who treated him after getting stabbed last
year, In fact, he even declined to name them, as not to make any
problems for him. All he wants now is to have the blade removed so he
can apply for that mining job.
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