Centenarian boasts of operation
NZPA-AP Stockholm
Harry Asberg, aged 101, may be the oldest patient to have a successful ulcer operation, but he would rather talk about his hunting days. He got the chance after the operation when doctors found a 82-year-old shotgun charge in his stomach.
“I was 19 years old and slipped and the gun went off. But my pa was a good barber-surgeon so I never had to go to the hospital,” Mr Asberg told the Stockholm newspaper “Aftonbladet,” in an interview published yesterday.
Doctors in Eksjo, a town in the southern province of Smaaland, operated on the centenarian last August, two months before he turned 101.
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