MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Good morning. I'm Mary Louise Kelly. File this under things your mom told you not to do. A British man had a cough he couldn't kick. He's a smoker, so doctors assumed it might be a lung tumor. When they went in with forceps, what they in fact found was a toy traffic-cone he had been given as a gift when he was 7. The patient confessed he used to swallow Playmobil pieces as a kid. Doctors pulled it out, and good news. That cough? It is gone. It's MORNING EDITION.
A British man had a bad cough. He's a smoker and doctors thought he had a lung tumor. It turned out to be a Playmobil traffic cone he swallowed as a child.