Woman With Stomach Ache Has Two-Inch Cat Hair Ball Removed From Vag

When a New York woman and cat owner named Michelle Barrow went to the gynaecologist complaining of a sore stomach, she got an extra hairy, and unexpected, surprise.

The woman had been complaining of a “dull ache” in her abdomen for about a month, and when she told her gyno, the doc decided to take a closer look. What she found is enough to make any cat owner, and really any person, physically ill.

A two-inch hairball was extracted from her vagina, and as the doctor was tugging it out Miss Barrow realised with a feeling of horror that it didn’t match her carpet or her drapes. It did however, match one of her cats!

Miss Barrow describes the moment that she realised what she was seeing:

“HOLY SHIT THAT IS CAT HAIR THERE HAS BEEN A BALL OF CAT HAIR INSIDE ME FOR A MONTH THAT IS CAT HAIR AND IT WAS IN MY VAGINA A HAIRBALL HAS BEEN CAUSING MY DISCOMFORT HOLY SHIT AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

See, the cat lover had been letting her two cats, Cricket and Donut, sleep in her bed. While she loved them dearly, the felines were big shedders, and them leaving a solid coating of cat hair on her bed was not that unusual. Being a cat owner, Miss Barrow didn’t really worry about it, and might have even been a bit lax at changing her sheets and clearing the hair away.

Therein lies her mistake…

See when she and her boyfriend had sex, with no condoms as Miss Barrow had an IUD in place, his penis picked up cat hair from the bed and deposited it in her vagina. Instead of being flushed out with other foreign particles like it was supposed to, the hair got caught up in her strings of her IUD coil, used by women to make sure the device is still in place.

Initially, her gynaecologist�thought the ‘hairball’ might have been a lost tampon or tampon fibres, but as Miss Barrows is not a regular tampon user, the more disgusting option�is in this case likely to be the truth.

After having the cat hairball removed from her vagina, Miss Barrows admitted, in the article she wrote about the experience,�that she is much more careful about where her cats sleep, and the thought of what happened “still sheeves” her out. Other than that, her sex life is back to normal now, despite being a little “touch-and go for the first few weeks” as both her and her fianc� were “a little turned off”. Oh, and she does sometimes make him shower before they do the deed.

Hair ball removed from vag lesson learned?

We think so!

Now excuse us while we go and clean ourselves thoroughly, everywhere.

Clare Whitfield Chief Editor

Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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