The family of a woman who died 7 years ago filed and won a law suit against an Ohio Clinic, alleging that the surgeon left a rolled up towel inside her chest, according to Reuters.

[Bonnie] Valle had surgery for emphysema at the Cleveland Clinic in 1995 and died at age 60 in 2002. She donated her body to the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in Rootstown, where a dissection revealed a green surgical cloth the size of a large hand towel in her left lung. Her family sued in 2004, claiming that because Valle’s doctors never found the towel, she suffered serious complications, incurred medical expenses and died. Clinic attorneys disagreed that the towel affected Valle’s health…”She lived seven years … which is certainly as well as one would have expected her to survive given her severe emphysema and poor pulmonary function and overall condition.”

How the hell did they manage to drop a towel inside a patient’s chest and that no one even noticed? You’d figure having any kind of objects inside you would pretty much kill you so how this lady managed to live on for a few more years is even a bigger question. Well, this can’t be as bad as the time Maggie Simpson swallowed a whole magazine inside her chest. Marge was all worried because it was a Time magazine. Remember that episode? Of course you do. [Sorry I don’t have a picture of that particular scene. But if you do, feel free to send it in!]