A woman's profound stomach pains had a pretty simple explanation.

Stomach pains are no joke. But a woman in China with one of the coolest names of all-time, Shing Fang, couldn't figure out why over the course of six months, her stomach pain got so bad that she couldn't eat or concentrate.

Until doctors x-rayed her. And found a PEN in her stomach.

She told doctors she had been diagnosed with depression over the fact her GP had been unable to solve the problem, and that in the last few weeks the pain had become so bad she couldn't eat properly or concentrate on her studies.

Medics at the Taiwanese hospital concluded the pen had been inside her for nearly six months.

They operated immediately to remove the pen, and warned that if it had been there any longer, it could well have led to peritonitis, or even DEATH.

As to how the pen got there, the young woman said she had no memory at all of swallowing it but agreed that it might well have been swallowed after drinking too much to celebrate doing well in an exam some six months previously.

Look, we've all been pretty excited about finishing school and doing well on exams. But if you get drunk and swallow pens, you're a crazy person.

I don't care how drunk you are; drunk you turns into inner you. And apparently inner Shing Fang had a thing for Bics.

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