She went in for a knee operation and left with a new anus

A 78-year-old German woman went into the hospital last month to have surgery on her leg. Because of a mixup, Frankenpost reports that she left the Hochfranken-Klinik in Münchberg, Germany, with an artificial anus.

The paper says some members of the surgical team have been punished in connection with the series of mistakes that led them to operate on the wrong patient.

Prosecutors are said to be looking into the incident. As for the unidentified patient, she still needs knee surgery and plans to file a lawsuit.

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30-Minute Worship Service

It’s a sitcom-length Sunday worship service.

A Sweet Half-Hour of Prayer.

And it’s attracting time-sensitive seekers to The Church at Rock Creek at 12: 30 p.m. Sundays.

The Little Rock Southern Baptist megachurch is billing the new 30-minute-long event as a “great solution” for timestarved Arkansans with busy schedules.

But some Christian leaders say that heavily abridged services could be counterproductive.

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Transgendered male claims to be pregnant

An Oregon man who used to be a woman says he is pregnant with a baby girl.

Thomas Beatie’s first-person story appears in a recent issue of The Advocate, a Los Angeles-based newsmagazine for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people.

According to the story, Thomas was born a woman but decided to become a transgender male and legally changed his sex to male. He had his breasts surgically removed and started bimonthly testosterone injections, but kept his vagina.

Now identifying as male, Thomas legally married Nancy, the story says. The pair wanted a biological baby but Nancy was unable to carry a child. So they decided Thomas would.

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