Doctors at a Singapore hospital were shocked to discover that a man complaining of difficulty swallowing had an octopus lodged in his oesophagus.
A care team made the discovery that the half-eaten mollusk was clogging up his throat after the 55-year-old was admitted to Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore, according to the Mirror. He reportedly went to the hospital after eating a meal that included the eight-armed creature.
An endoscopic procedure in which a camera was used to see inside the patient’s esophagus and stomach showed that the octopus, complete with its suckers, was stuck inside. After their initial attempts to remove it failed, the Mirror reports doctors used the endoscope to maneuver “past the mass into the stomach and retroflexed. Doctors then used forceps to grasp the head of the octopus to extract it.”
The patient was hospitalized for two days before being discharged.