Wendy's Plastic Utensil Removed From Man's Lung

John Manley, a 50-year-old North Carolina man, can now breathe easily. Surgeons recently removed a 1-inch piece of plastic utensil that had been resting in his lungs for nearly two years.

Medical practitioners from the Duke University Medical Center performed a delicate operation to remove the plastic utensil, still bearing the Wendy's logo on the side. For almost two years, Manley was coughing heavily and suffered from frequent fatigue and pneumonia. When he sought the help of experts, he was surprised to find out there was a foreign object in his left lung. "One doctor said they could remove my lung... I said no way. That was the easiest way for them, and I said I didn't think so," Manley toldFox News. Dr. Momen Wahidi, director of interventional pulmonology at Duke, led the operation but was puzzled on how the plastic got inside Manley's lung. Wahidi remembers extracting false teeth, nails, and even a peanut from adults' lungs but nothing as odd as a plastic utensil. According to Manley, he probably inhaled it while gulping a drink from Wendy's. Wendy's spokesman Denny Lynch was also surprised. He said company officials would contact Manley at the appropriate time.