Globo reported this past week on a woman in São Paulo state who discovered a 15 centimeter pinça (tweezers)  floating around in her abdomen for 25 years. After having terrible stomach pain for a quarter of a century, she finally had the appropriate tests done and surmised that the instrument had been left by a careless doctor during her C-section when she had her son. She is now suing the hospital, since the doctor in charge of her son’s birth has since died.

Her current doctor says they will have to perform another surgery to remove the tweezers. But the victim said: “Eu estou com trauma, até de passar na porta do hospital.” [I’m traumatized, even to walk through the door of the hospital]

To read more about this odd story in Portuguese, click here.