Speaking of… ●4

… needles!

Some time in the mid-thirties, my grandmother accidently sat on a needle that broke. They tried to find the broken tip of the needle, but was never able to find it. I bet it must have hurt quite a lot at the time, but after a while, the needle was forgotten.

Thirteen years later, my mother, age 4 developed a swelling on her upper right arm. She was taken to the hospital to have the arm examined by a doctor. Inside the swelling, there was the broken needle.

How the needle magically wandered from my grandmothers tush, through the womb and to the tiny baby that was to grow up to be my mother without causing any serious injuries, I don’t know. Every time I tell this story, people refuse to believe me… but then all I can say is: Hey, I only know what my mother told me!

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Additional facts as by November 4:

Correction:

Mother age 1,5 not 4 (I mixed the stories up : 4 was when she almost drowned…)
Now not only Mothers Word as proof - also Dagens Nyheter (one of Sweden’s biggest and oldest newspapers) swears by it! (Because everything that you can read in a paper is a well known truth!)

Translation (excuse my Swenglish…):

Needle wandered from mother’s leg to baby’s arm
From Dagens Nyheters (Daily News) correspondent
Eksjö, Wednesday

A unique case of “needle wandering” through the body has become known in Eksjö. A tip of a sewing needle that 13 years ago got stuck in the thigh of an Eksjö lady has now emerged through the upper arm – not her’s, but her baby girl’s.
In it’s time, attempts were made at Eksjö hospital to have the needle removed. The doctors did get hold of it, but it slipped away and disappeared. Recently, the woman’s 1,5 year old daughter got a black mark on her arm, and during examinations, to general astonishment, the needle that 13 years earlier disappeared in the mother’s body were retrieved.
The doctors don’t see it as impossible that it actually is the same needle. The only explanation is believed to be that the needle got into the girl’s body through the placenta.