"They said that I could die at any second," Ekaterina Badulina, 34, told local media while detailing the surgical straggler, Jam Press reported. It turns out that in the picture the doctors saw some kind of metal spring measuring 5 by 16 millimeters, which was in the lung."
"After all the examinations, they said that a spring had moved in my body from a past operation ... through the bloodstream ... which, apparently, I didn't even feel," Badulina claimed. When the Russian was 27, she had 33 tubes placed in her leg after suffering a thromboembolism.
"Miraculously, I managed to survive," said Badulina, who underwent 20 operations in one year. However, the harrowing ordeal reared its head again when the spring resurfaced years later.
"After hearing it [the fragment] had moved, I had to take control of my thoughts and emotions," Badulina said. "Focusing only on optimism, not fear and despondency. Anyone can die at any second; no one knows what will happen to them tomorrow."
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