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Mother of two and care worker Bobby Lee said she briefly left unable to breathe after accidently swallowing a Covid text swab
A mother needed emergency surgery to remove a six-inch-long Covid swab that got stuck in her throat.
Bobby Lee, 31, said she briefly feared for her life after accidently swallowing the test last month.
Ms Lee is just one of hundreds of Britons who have reported being hurt while using routine Covid tests, as MailOnline revealed in April.
The mother-of-two was home alone with her youngest child when she decided to take the test as she was feeling unwell after working a night-shift.
However, upon putting the swab in her mouth, the care worker revealed it 'twanged back' and got stuck.
Unsure of what to do, Ms Lee, from Peterlee in County Durham, tried to swallow the swab but it got lodged part-way down her throat.
She then raced to her local A&E, where medics said they had never seen a similar case.
Ms Lee was then transferred to a nearby hospital where she underwent emergency surgery.
Surgeons managed to find the swab by shoving a thin, flexible camera down her throat, before using tools to pull it out.
Footage from the emergency surgery shows medics extracting the swab shows it had reached her stomach and if the object had been left inside her it could have punctured her intestines
The swab after it was removed from Ms Lee's throat, the 31-year-old is just one of hundreds of Britons who say they have been injured using Covid tests
She said when the swab initially became stuck she thought she had no option but to try to swallow it
'The stick twanged in my mouth and got stuck at the back
