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Colonoscopy Reveals a Ladybug

When I try to start conversations with strangers, one of my go-to questions is "What's the most surprising thing you've ever encountered in a colonoscopy?"

It doesn't have to be the person's own colonoscopy--just one that the person has experienced.

This gentleman (that's a man in the photo) had ladybug in his colon. A 2019 article in the medical journal American College of Gastroenterology Reports briefly describes the surprising appearance of a harmonia axyridis, one of 6,000 ladybug species in the world. If I understand the article correctly, the doctors assume that the patient swallowed the bug. His consumption of a full gallon of polyethylene glycol as part of the colonoscopy preparation may have protected the ladybug from digestion.

-via Science Girl


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I find the thought of a lady bug strolling along a my totally clean and empty colon as potentially extremely ..discomforting.. I'm clenching just thinking about it. I'm leaning toward lulz on this one too.
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Several years ago, along with others, I'm in the recovery area after a colonoscopy. A doctor goes in to a curtained area next to mine and begins to lecture a young woman.
"I see you ate before the procedure, didn't we give you instructions not to?"
"Yeah, but I was really hungry."
"Well, we're not going to be able to use these results. Do you know how expensive this procedure is?"
There was a lot more, but what was the offending food? Pomegranate seeds. Thought I was gonna die.
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It's plausible that when you have to drink a gallon of that stuff, you belt it back in a hurry and wouldn't notice a bug fell in your drink. It's also plausible in this day and age that someone at the clinic slipped it in for the pic and the lulz.
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I think the media/police use the full name (including middle name) of serial killers so that innocent people who happen to have the same first and last names won't get mixed-up with the criminal.
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Except the theory falls apart rather quickly. Do you know the middle names of:

Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Paul Bernardo, Jeffrey Dahmer, Clifford Olson, Robert Pickton, Theodore Kaczynski, Adolf Hitler?
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Theory could still hold Ted. Those killers were so famous that there really is no confusing them with a random person on the street. No rational person would assume the Ted Bundy in your office is the serial killer.
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You're arguing all around my point, which is still valid. "Why do all killers have three names" is more subjective opinion than fact.

Maybe people who follow it more closely are noticing patterns in police reporting techniques, so mc's explanation is accurate for that. I'm not one to follow such morbid pastimes, which borders on hero-worship. I only pointed out that not ALL killers have, or are known by, three names.
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