A few years ago, a 50-year-old woman named Margaret Dalaman from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, presented to the hospital with severe stomach pains. She did not confess to the doctors the real reason for her stomach pain, she stated that they simply started suddenly while sitting on TV and that their intensity was hard to bear.
The doctors consulted the patient, they felt something hard in the stomach but otherwise, nothing alarming. They decided to do an X-ray to identify exactly the patient’s problem and to see exactly what was in her stomach. What they saw in the patient’s stomach shocked them. They couldn’t believe that someone could do such a thing.
Following the x-ray, the doctors found 78 stainless steel cutlery in the stomach of the 50-year-old patient. They tried to recover from the shock and put their woman in emergency surgery to remove her cutlery and save her life, which still hung on a thread.
The operation lasted several hours, the woman feeling worse and worse, but in the end, it was a success, the doctors managing to remove all the 78 cutlery, without any other complications.
One of the doctors confessed that the woman had some mental problems and that this was an obsession of hers.
Apparently, when he sat down to eat, he did not pay attention to the food, but rather to the cutlery, until he came to eat them.
After the operation, Margaret Dalaman recovered completely and sought specialized help to get rid of this problem and to never end up in such situations again.
Specialists can not forget this case and say that it is unique in this world. At the moment, the 50-year-old woman has completely got rid of her obsession with eating cutlery.