Thanks For the Memories
u/feetofire: “I was working in Africa and the usually very stoic Congolese surgeons called me in to theatre, gagging—the patient was an elderly woman with a protruding abdominal mass. When they opened it, they found that it was a long, long dead mummified foetus which as a result of an ectopic pregnancy, had somehow managed to both wall off after it died and somehow avoid killing the mother.
Her body had encapsulted the alien tissue and over the years, it had slowly eroded her anterior abdominal wall to the point where it finally caused her to have enough symptoms to get something done about it. It was horrific and the smell was worse. Happily, though, the patient survived the procedure and just left the surgical team with…a memory.”