A resident of the English city of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, recovered from breathing problems after an orange seed fell into her nose about 60 years ago, reports the Daily Star.
In the 1960s, when Betty Mcphail was 8 years old, she got into a fight with her brother Tony. At the time of the argument, the children ate an orange, and during the scuffle, an orange seed got stuck in McPhail’s nose.
The entire subsequent life of the Englishwoman, who is now 68 years old, suffered from respiratory problems. She had to breathe through her mouth.
On December 2, the woman blew her nose badly, and the bone fell out of her nose. Immediately after that, she felt her airway clear and she was able to breathe through her nose again.
“Now I can breathe normally for the first time in decades. It’s a miracle,” McPhail said.
“I told my daughter Louise that no one would believe it. So I called my brother and Tony said,” Do you remember when you ate an orange, we had a fight, and I poked you into a half-eaten fruit? ” then I could breathe in the bone, “she said.
For 60 years, it never occurred to anyone that breathing problems could be caused by a foreign object in McPhail’s nose.
Previously it was reported that doctors removed a 48-year-old Australian from the nasal cavity marijuana that he hid there 18 years ago. He received the drug as a gift from a friend who managed to smuggle him on a prison visit. To prevent the guards from noticing the gift, he wrapped it in a piece of balloon rubber and hid it in his nostril.