My wife died after doctors failed to spot toilet brush handle lodged in her buttock

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I thought it was April 1st, but no its all true.

www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Mum-died-doctors-failed-spot-toilet-brush-handle-embedded-buttock/ article-2174279-detail/article.html

i saw this in the paper and thought i have got to put this on mn!!!

you beat me to it!!

How is that possible? How can you get a toilet brush stuck in your buttock?

Surely it must have been a smallish piece that broke off rather than the whole handle?

Fat ass !

I want to see the xrays.

The whole story beggers belief Why didn't anyone believe her? Two years? How could it go unnoticed?

I'm glad to see you're all getting so much amusement out of a mother suffering pain for two years and dying. I hope none of her family are on Mumsnet.

Having a toilet brush stuck in yours arse cheek is slightly comical though, you have to admit.

Of course it is very sad that she died.

Its Linconshire anything is possible .

Why does anything stuck up a bottom or vagina have to be the result of a 'drunken mishap'.

Obviously a small piece was lodged in her buttock and the press have sensationalised it.
It is the man killing himself with a giant pencil all over again .

Sounds very sad actually. She was in pain for two years because the a&e doctor couldn't see the serrated plastic which had pierced her skin and sunk in. An xray failed to pick it up, but there was no second opinion and she wasn't listened to. By the time they started the first of three ops to remove it after many months in agony, it was embedded in her pelvis. The third operation caused massive blood loss and she died.

So there is a much sadder story behind the sniggers that the headline creates. Poor woman and her family. She dies and people find it hilarious.

I agree that its mean to laugh at this

I knew Cindy and her husband I also live in the same town.
She had a 6 inch piece of handle embedded which eventually ended up in her pelvis.

I think it's been very badly reported & sensationalised. Obviously a WHOLE toilet brush handle would be impossible to miss, but a small shard of presumably plastic which wouldn't show up well on a xray, could have been missed at first but there doesn't seem to have been any follow up for a long time. She had three operations in all, the last in June 2009 at which she sadly died.

yes it's absolutely mean to laugh at this.

So why mention the man with the pencil - I have no hope of stopping sniggering now!

SIX INCHES??? You would have thought they'd have explored the wound she went in with. No wonder the coroner blasted the doctor who first examined her.

it was a 6 inch length of the handle not a small shard

It's a despicable way of handling a very sad story.

Did laugh at the homogeneous mass that is "foreign countries" though.

Shoddy reporting.

What a sad story, why was it not visible on an x-ray?

Agree the reporting is dreadful. Poor husband and family.

The husband looks like he's sniggering in the picture though - if he can't pretend it's not funny what hope do we have?

I'm sure he's laughing his head off.

I cannot believe the comments on this thread.
I hope if you're ever hit by a tragedy and some tacky journalist decides to make a cheap headline out of it, you won't get publicly sniggered at by ignorant people.

If I die due to a drunken mishap with a household implement you are more than welcome to snigger. Thanks for caring though.

What a lovely sensitive post.