A New Zealand woman has received the shock of her life after doctors found a tiddlywink stuck up her nose. It has believed to have been there for 37 years.
For most of her life, Mary McCarthy has often had a pain on the right side of her nose. Then last year after an extremely painful Covid-19 test, her nasal problems deteriorated.
Tiddlywinks is a child’s game, which was developed in England in the 1860s. It is played with sets of small discs called “winks”. Players use a “squidger” to shoot a wink into flight and into a pot for points.
McCarthy said she remembered playing tiddlywinks with her seven brothers and sisters and as an 8-year-old. She also remembers putting the ‘winks’ up each nostril and “blowing them out to see how they would go”.
“One time I accidentally inhaled one instead of blowing it out, and I was a bit too scared to tell my mother, so I didn’t. I remember being terrified at the time, thinking ‘where it has gone’.”
McCarthy is now looking forward to easier breathing and a straighter nose.
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I wonder if she still likes Tiddlywinks now…
Oh thats not good.
It must be hard to breath it would be sooo scary
wow that weird
what on earth! Its was on the news to!
this is the best
wow thats a long time
I wonder if see likes them and see will still play the game. If I see one again I would run or smash it with a hammer.
I can’t believe she hadn’t noticed