Very early one Saturday morning, after a Friday night of drinking, 24-year-old Emma Phillips and her partner, Lee Miller, decided to get intimate. Things very quickly, however, took an unexpected turn.
One of the couple’s sex toys – seven inches long and bright pink – disappeared.
Both Phillips and Miller spent some time searching for it on the bed and in her bedroom, but to no avail.
Just as the two were about to call off their search, Phillips leaned onto her stomach and suddenly felt something vibrating inside her bottom, behind her hip.
That was when they both finally realized that toy had somehow gotten stuck inside Phillips’ bottom.
The couple spent almost an hour trying to dislodge it with a fork handle – which Phillips reported that they’re no longer using – as well as a pair of BBQ prongs before anxiously deciding to seek out professional help.
“We knew we were going to have to go to the hospital,” Phillips said. “We were both a bit shocked.”
At that point, it was barely 7 in the morning, but because both Phillips and Miller had drunk a lot last night, they didn’t trust themselves to drive.
Phillips swallowed her embarrassment and called the ambulance, explaining to the call handler what “exactly…the problem [was].”
Once Phillips arrived at the hospital, the doctors gave her an X-ray to determine the precise location of the sex toy; it was “too high up and would be too painful for them to manually extract it while [Phillips] was awake.”
Thankfully, Phillips said the doctors “moved quite quickly” and spent a lot of time reassuring her that everything would be okay.
Around noon that day, Phillips underwent the extraction surgery. The procedure went smoothly and Phillips was discharged later that evening. The doctors even offered her the toy as a souvenir, but Phillips declined.
She’s relieved to be home safe with her daughter and advises anyone else with an embarrassing medical situation to always suck up their pride and shame, and seek medical help when needed. “You hear about people becoming really ill or even dying because they're too embarrassed to get help - I would hate that to happen to someone,” she said.
