María Aderlinda Forero said that she had trouble sleeping and moving around for years -- because of a needle and thread reportedly mistakenly lodged inside of her. Jam Press She was in sew much pain.

As a kid, were you ever taught how to thread a needle? I have to admit that I never quite learned to sew, and I usually give even the most minor of tears in my clothing to the dry cleaner to fix.

The usual way, as had been handed down through the ages, is, of course, to squint one eye, take the fraying end of a piece of string, and, with some help from saliva and scissors, jab it through the ...