She says it happened when she was 9. Who knows how many others there are out there like this?! I know it is from Ananova, but…...
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2736610.html?menu=
.....“Woman had springs in her body
A Chinese woman who complained of back pain turned out to have 10 small springs in her body.
“The muscles around the spine felt very tight, and as if they were pulling part, but I couldn’t pinpoint the exact location of the pain,” said Li, 47, of Yanji city.
Hospital doctors were initially baffled when an x-ray showed white spots along her spine, reports the Beijing Evening Post.
Chief surgeon Dr Jin said: “We took five small springs from her back, buried 1 to 1.5 cm under the skin. Some of them had grown together with the muscles, and rusted….......”
(Go to the link for the full story…)
YIKES! Sounds like a scam AND a hoax in one…..
See what happens in a closed society with NO oversight!....
On a similar note, I noticed in the Jan/Feb issue of ODE mag. today that the World Health Org. says that Acupuncture is effective in treating 25 or more conditions! (pg 64 “health- Power Points” They have a full article about how EFFECTIVE AND SAFE IT IS!
Yikes and double Yikes!
