Doctors conducted an emergency surgery on a woman in Connecticut to remove a wire barbecue brush bristle from her digestive tract. They said that she was not the first one.

The woman named Cheryl Harrison of Wallingford, Connecticut, felt a sharp and unusual pain in her stomach, following which her husband rushed her to the hospital.

The pain she suffered from was caused by a single stray bristle that after falling off the metal grill cleaning brush went into her through a hamburger that she ate.

Within a day, the woman came to the emergency room due to severe abdominal pain. A CT scan showed the wire inside her, and then doctors were able to remove it from her stomach via laparoscopic surgery.

Her general surgeon at MidState Medical Center, Dr. Aziz Benbrahim, told CBS News that Harrison was lucky because she came in right away.

The surgeon said that a previous patient of his who got a grill brush wire stuck in his system waited for more than two weeks. The wire had punctured his intestine.

Benbrahim added, "I had to open him up completely. Then we remove this wire and we found out also why he had chest pain -- because he also had pulmonary embolism, which is a blood clot in his lungs". He mentioned that the patient was just lucky that he was still alive.

It is very dangerous, as only one of the coarse wire bristles can puncture any part of the digestive system, including esophagus, intestines or stomach, while making its way down the tract. This can cause sharp pains to major punctures that could result into death.

According to CDC, every year, nearly 80,000 people are admitted to emergency rooms after accidentally swallowing foreign objects. Majority of them are children.