'Together with his neighbour he looked after his very elderly mother who he lived with.'
In a statement read at the inquest he said Mr Tardage had been unable to remove the vibrator which he had inserted into his rectum days before his admission to hospital.
'He was admitted to the ITU on the 31 December, he had a very prolonged ITU stay,' he added.
Mr Tardage's' condition deteriorated and he became less responsive, dying at 7am on February 7 this year.
The post mortem conducted by Dr Peter Jerreat determined the cause of death to be multi-organ failure, sepsis and a perforated bowel.
Assistant Coroner to inner-south London Sarah Ormand-Walshe said: 'This is a sad case of a an who died at 50 years of age.
'He appears to have had a foreign object which has become stuck in the lower part of his bowel and had been there for a number of days when he was encouraged to go to hospital by his friends on 30 December 2015.
'That night it was discovered that it looked like he had a perforated bowel.'
Ms Ormand-Walshe said Mr Tard was left 'fighting for his life' over the ensuing days.
'The main cause of death clearly is just the abdomen injury - the injury to the bowel,' she said.
The cause of death was given as multi-organ failure, sepsis and a perforated bowel.
The coroner ruled Mr Tardage, of (135) Dartmouth Road, Forest Hill, died as a result of an accident.
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