Chinese woman's ills traced to 23 secret needles
by RobotGod.
Chinese surgeons will try to remove 23 needles from a woman. Doctors believe they may have been embedded under her skin by grandparents trying to kill her so that a baby boy might take her place.
reports that the needles are about an inch in length and were discovered by X-ray after Luo Cuifen, 29, went to doctors complaining of blood in her urine.
Many of the needles have worked their way into the woman's vital organs including her lungs, liver, bladder and kidneys, which makes removing them difficult. Six of the 23 needles, all of them in her abdomen, will be removed Tuesday in the first of several operations.
According to a hospital news release, the woman has suffered for years. She had severe depression and anxiety and long-term insomnia, and was completely unable to do any heavy lifting or hard physical labor.
23 doctors will participate in the operation, their fields ranging from women’s medicine to neurology and there is even a bone specialist and some cardiologists. This includes doctors from Canada and the United States.
They believe the woman’s grandparents may have inserted the needles long ago, in the hopes that she would die and her parents might have a boy in her place. China limits most families to just one child, though rural Chinese may be allowed to have a second if their first is a girl. It is all subject to the payment of fines.
Chinese woman's ills traced to 23 secret needles
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