I’ve been fighting off an upper respiratory infection since Monday evening, so by this point I’m pretty experienced at coughing stuff up. However, 72-year-old Prax Sanchez, of Colorado Springs, has me beat. I’m just coughing up gross fluids from my lungs, he’s coughing up one-inch nails. Which is way better than coughing up Nine Inch Nails, I guess.
Doctors say the nail could’ve been in Mr. Sanchez for up to 30 years. The only thing that dislodged it was the MRI he was currently undergoing, which pulled the nail up far enough for him to cough it up. I guess that was fortunate for him. I mean, the nail had apparently been in there forever, and he had no memory of any nail-related mishaps, so it wasn’t like the nail was hurting him. But better out than in when it comes to inch-long pieces of metal.
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