“They said I could die at any moment”

It’s enough to make anyone reel in horror.

An influencer suffering from colds was horrified after doctors discovered a metal spring in her lung from a previous operation.

“They said I could die at any second,” Ekaterina Badulina, 34, told local media, detailing the surgical man, Jam Press reported.

The Russian content creator had been experiencing a runny fever with chills that became so severe she feared she might have pneumonia.

Badulina rushed to the hospital, where X-rays revealed the surprising culprit.

“It turns out that in the photo, the doctors saw some kind of metal source measuring 5 by 16 millimeters, which was in the lung,” said the concerned Instagrammer, who underwent a CT scan so that doctors could get a better view.

They concluded that the surgical instrument had been left over from a previous procedure.

“After all the examinations, they told me that a spring had moved in my body from a previous operation – through the blood circulation – which apparently I didn’t even feel,” claimed Badulina.

When the Russian was 27, she had 33 tubes placed in her leg after suffering a thromboembolism, which occurs when a vessel becomes blocked by a blood clot that has broken off and entered the circulating blood.

“By miracle, I managed to survive”, said Badulina, who underwent 20 operations in one year.

However, the terrible ordeal reared its head again when spring reappeared years later. Doctors told her she could pass at any moment given the precarious location of the coil in her lung.

Thankfully, the patient managed to see the positive side of the potentially dire ordeal.

“After I heard it [the fragment] I had moved, I had to take control of my thoughts and emotions”, said Badulina. “Focusing only on optimism, not on fear and despair.”

She added, “Anybody can die at any second; nobody knows what will happen to them tomorrow.”