Anybody ever swallow a paper clip?

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<p>Son did. Well, actually, it flew down his throat after it boinged off a classmate’s t-shirt in home room yesterday. (Son was yawning.) Yup. 17 years old. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>I called the ped, who ordered xrays. Apparently the same thing happened to a different patient last week. It got caught on something and had to be surgically removed. </p>

<p>So here I sit at my office while S and H head to the radiologist and try to get back to school in time for Son to catch the bus to the XC meet. </p>

<p>Sigh.</p>

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<p>I had no idea paper clip ingestion was so common.
good luck
;)</p>

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<p>Thank goodness it wasn’t a safety pin!</p>

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<p>That is so hilariously tragic. Hopefully it will pass LOL without surgical removal and I say that with sincerity. That’ll teach him not to yawn that wide in class without covering his mouth.</p>

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<p>Nope, but DD once stapled herself to a math test.</p>

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<p>Did you actually swallow that story?</p>

<p>Is this a new game our kids are playing? Was it done on a dare? I remember when my son was about 5 years old he had a small piece of wood (stick) lodged deep in his ear canal, requiring a doctor visit for removal. He told us it just flew into his ear… yeah, right!</p>

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<p>Nope but S1 got a tinker toy stuck on his thumb and S2 got a googlie eye stuck in his ear (he still says it was the strangest sound he ever heard).</p>

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<p>No, but my son did swallow an open carpet staple when he was 4 years old. He couldn’t tell us what it was, just that it “fell down his throat”. The x-ray told the tale. Thankfully, it “passed” with no problem.</p>

<p>His doctor told me we should feed him junk food, not staples.</p>

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<p>How about a bean (uncooked) up the nose?</p>

<p>By the way, if any of you find yourselves in Philadelphia, the Mutter Museum has a collection of items removed from peoples’ stomachs. They’re all laid out on little cards in a multi-drawer cabinet. A paper clip is the least of them…</p>

<p>Dougbetsy, hope your S is ok.</p>

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<p>No, but when i was around 14-15, I was waving a pencil around and the eraser end went up my nose :(</p>

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<p>DougBetsy - How is he doing?</p>

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<p>I wonder how long that would take to pass through ones system? My friend’s son, as a toddler swallowed a gold star (small) necklace charm. After 24 hours of diaper checking, there it was…very very shiny too.</p>

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<p>When my D was little one of her close friends swallowed a Polly Pocket. After it passed her dad said she had had a baby.</p>

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<p>I was hoping to see an update that all was fine now and your S ran his best time ever in the XC race. Now I am worried that something bad has happened. Praying for your S (and then off to a XC meet)</p>

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<p>Oh, I hope that he won’t need any medical treatment/surgery. Let us know how he is!</p>

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<p>He’s fine. Xray showed the paper clip was halfway through the intestines. </p>

<p>The doctor was funny. She said I should make it his responsibility to, umm, monitor its exit. “He’s too old for Mom to do something like that. Make him pay. ;)” She has a S & D same age as mine, so she could totally relate. She said prior to this the best 17-yo ingestation in her practice was a lego. “This beats that hands down,” She declared. </p>

<p>That’s my boy.</p>

<p>I wish I could post a pic of the xray. It looks like something you’d see on Scrubs. :smiley: Oh, and btw, it’s one of those jumbo kind of paper clips, not the standard office variety.</p>

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<p>Oh wow. Glad so far so good!!</p>

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<p>Good luck to him with the exit process.</p>

<p>This could be wonderfully useful if his team or dorm hall plays any form of the “two truths and a lie about yourself” game, in the getting-to-know-you process at college next fall. He should be able to fool a lot of people with “I once [use your favorite euphemism here] out a paperclip.”</p>

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<p>Good idea, Harriet. And he has the xray on his cell phone as proof! :D</p>

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<p>Hmmmm . . . . now, can he turn this into a college essay??</p>