When Peter Kirkegaard was violently ill for days last week and doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him, his wife urged them to perform a CT scan.
The results showed a small, slim object pinned in the 60-year-old’s small intestine. It was a single wire bristle from a barbecue brush.
“If it wasn’t for my wife, who knows?” Kirkegaard told the Calgary Eyeopener this week, explaining he believes the metal sliver could have killed him.
LISTEN | Peter Kirkegard speaks with CBC’s Loren McGinnis
Calgary Eyeopener8:33Calgary man swallows barbecue brush bristle
We talk to the man who was sent to the hospital thanks to a barbecue
