TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters)
A Honduran fisherman
woke up after a drunken binge to find
somebody had
pushed a 4.4-inch bottle far up his rectum, a doctor said.
Doctors removed the bottle from Jose Lopez's intestine in an
operation in the city of San Pedro Sula, some 100 miles
north of the capital Tegucigalpa, more than two weeks after it
was introduced.
"The foreign matter was stuck in his large intestine. We
can't figure out why it rose that high instead of descending,"
surgeon Reiniery Jimenez told reporters.
Lopez, 43, said he slept in field near his home on April 18
after drinking after drinking a quart of aguardiente, a fiery
local spirit. He said he had no idea what had happened until
doctors took an X-ray.
"When I woke up the next day I felt something strange which
gave me some pain and prevented me from defecating.
I didn't feel any pain while I slept," he told Tiempo
newspaper. "It was like being pregnant because I felt it moving
up or
down when I walked or changed my position."
Lopez said he had since given up drink.
Jimenez said the
patient was now in stable condition.
