But an inquest heard it took Mrs Corton, of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, two years to convince doctors that the handle was lodged in flesh of her bottom.

By then what should have been a routine procedure to remove it had become much more dangerous.

After two unsuccessful operations in 2007, Mrs Corton underwent further, much riskier surgery and died from massive blood loss at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre in June last year.

Recording a narrative verdict, coroner Stuart Fisher criticised Dr Killian Mbewe, who first examined Mrs Corton at Grantham hospital.

After the inquest, husband Peter Corton said: "Cindy got a very poor service from the NHS.

"I'm sure she would have got better treatment in foreign countries."

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What the shit? Two years with a toilet brush in her ass?! How is that even possible?

this is a bittersweet moment for me >_>...lol...funny, but not so funny

A... toilet brush handle?

How the fuck does it get there?

Oh dear - terrible but horribly funny.

I can get failing to spot it assuming it was plastic, but my mind boggles that:

a) over 2 years someone failed to notice that she had what I presume was a plastic handle stuck inside her flesh whenever she went to the doctors

b) that an operation to remove something embedded in the soft flesh of the buttocks could go so wrong

I guess the Moral is:

1 - don't take no for an answer when you know something is stuck in your body

2 - try and avoid falling drunkenly onto plastic toilet cleaners

How did she get a toilet brush stuck in her flesh? It's round and plastic!





(Kind of like your mum)

That would have been funny if my mom weren't actually round and plastic. But she is, so now it's just hurtful... and maybe bannable (you'll find out shortly!).

Poor lady, not a very dignified way to go

That's actually pretty sad.

Not only that but that's a pretty terrible way to be remembered.

This sounds like it was made up by the government to make the Labour NHS seem crap. I mean, REALLY?

I wouldn't put it past the NHS, but still...

2 years? Well at some point it has to annoying instead of sexual exciting... I would take it out after 3 months..