14 DAY TRIAL // Back in the 1970s, when he was just a child, Steve Easton of Surrey, UK, accidentally inhaled the rubber tip of a toy dart while playing around with it.
His parents rushed him to the hospital, but since they couldn't see anything off inside his nose, doctors assumed that it was all a mistake and simply sent him home.
Steve Easton inhaled the toy dart when he was merely 7 years old. Just the other day, at the age of 51, he sneezed it out at long last.
For those of you who are not big fans of math, this means that this man in the UK spent an astounding 44 years with the darn toy stuck up his nose.
The man was clueless about the toy dart in his nose
Since he had inhaled it as a child, Steve Easton didn't even know that the toy was there. Hence the fact that, when it came flying out of his nose, he was a tad spooked.
“I thought, ‘What's this? Where the hell has this come from?’ and pulled out this rubber sucker. I was completely blown away,” the man explained in an interview, as cited by DM.
“It had been there in my nasal cavity for 44 years. I was completely unaware that it was in my nose for that long,” the 51-year-old man went on to explain.
In shock, he called his mother and told her about the bizarre find. It was then that he learned that, as a child, he had been taken to hospital for fear that he had inhaled the toy.
The dart made the man sick for the better part of his life
Although the toy dart didn't cause him to develop any serious medical complications, Steve Easton says that living with it stuck up his nose wasn't exactly a pleasant experience.
Instead, he explains that he had to deal with headaches and blocked nasal passages for the better part of his life. These symptoms were all the more frustrating because he had no idea what was causing them.
Now that the toy rubber dart is finally out of his nose, the man can only hope that he will no longer get headaches all that often and that his bad case of the sniffles will take a turn for the better.