I recently had an unfortunate accident where I consumed a steel britsle from a BBQ brush, which people commonly use to clean their grills.
The bristle from the brush got caught in some fat on the grill, which then became lodged in a piece of pork tenderloin. After eating a portion of the pork, I felt a sharp stabbing pain in my esophagus. I tried to tough it out for approx 1 hour, before I realized I needed to go to the hospital.
Upon admitance to the Ajax'Pickering hospital, I had chest and abdominal x-rays, which showed that this piece of steel was lodged about 2 inches below my adam's apple. From this point, they decided they needed a ENT doctor to remove this from me. They fed me some valium them rolled me to the OR, where they knocked me out and removed it with a Fiber Optic Camera and some sort of tweezers.
Upon waking up, I no longer felt the jabbing sensation in my throat... I was some kind of sore though, needing 3 days off work to heal. Plus a night at the hospital.
Moral of the story is... Wash your grill after cooking, having steel stuck in your throat sucks!
The bristle from the brush got caught in some fat on the grill, which then became lodged in a piece of pork tenderloin. After eating a portion of the pork, I felt a sharp stabbing pain in my esophagus. I tried to tough it out for approx 1 hour, before I realized I needed to go to the hospital.
Upon admitance to the Ajax'Pickering hospital, I had chest and abdominal x-rays, which showed that this piece of steel was lodged about 2 inches below my adam's apple. From this point, they decided they needed a ENT doctor to remove this from me. They fed me some valium them rolled me to the OR, where they knocked me out and removed it with a Fiber Optic Camera and some sort of tweezers.
Upon waking up, I no longer felt the jabbing sensation in my throat... I was some kind of sore though, needing 3 days off work to heal. Plus a night at the hospital.
Moral of the story is... Wash your grill after cooking, having steel stuck in your throat sucks!
