Jesus Christ. Nine year old has swallowed a pound coin.

[MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig]

Quite apart from how she could be so bloody stupid, we have had to come to hospital to have her checked out. I had to bang on the door for about five minutes before anyone buzzed us in. No sign of any staff and people already here waiting. She says she feels fine but obviously I want someone to have a look at her. Hospital looks like a ghost town. Told on 111 not to give her a drink or make her sick. No idea if it will get stuck or pass through. I could actually wring her neck.

I swallowed a magnet when I was 9. But it was only because my DB dared me to swallow a paper clip and then panicked, so he tied dental floss to a magnet and got me to swallow it to get the paper clip dm was hysterical and DF rang all his mates before taking me to the hospital. The nurse cried laughing and doctor pulled the floss yup it all came out

Oh nooo, I can feel the dismal resignation which must have descended at some point between 22:47 and 00:03.

Oh the doom of A&E after midnight...

Oooh, magnets are nasty, much worse than coins!

I cannot help that you and your DD are being held awake by defensive medicine and ott risk aversion. But I know that's easy for me to say.

Oh no!! What's the point of an X Ray? I ask because I don't think I'd have taken ds (also 9) if he was breathing and swallowing ok. Hmmmm maybe I should rethink that.

If it makes you feel any better when I came out of hospital having had Dd, on dh's first day back at work there I was struggling with breastfeeding and 3yo ds came through and said 'I ate a Thomas magnet'. Had to have a blood my Scan (CT??) spent ages in A&E and then nothing on the X Ray and he says 'oh yes I 'member now I didn't swallow it I put it in my pencil case' WTAF?

Flumps that's hilarious!

Bloody not blood my!

Haud, that's so funny
Just the kind of thing my insane boys would do. And then be all hurt and astonished if I went a bit huffy at the unnecessary fuss and upheaval. "What? whats?" OMG, I can hear DS3(8) say this!

pacific I just looked at him. I couldn't even form any words. I think I was just thinking 'this is the fucking ridiculousness of my life now'

I heard you could die from swallowing a magnet - I have lived believing this premise but don't actually know if it's true

Nope, one magnet is unlikely to do any harm, however two magnets (or a magnet and a paper clip…) can stick together with a bit of bowl trapped between them and cause problems.

Button batteries - v v bad.

Gawd, I miss working in A+E

Well we're finally home. Took aaages for the doctor to come and see us and then it all went quite swiftly. No sign of it on the chest X-ray so the doctor said it's either passed through already or she didn't swallow it at all. Wtf? She didn't make it up! Dd indignantly said that it had hurt on the way down.

Thank you all for your equally terrifying but hilarious anecdotes. It kept me going. There was quite a lot of dismal resignation going on.

Good to know - thanks Pacific

Glad your home OP - hopefully this too shall pass...sooner rather than later

Pacific, that's just had me in hysterics for a solid 5 minutes. My preggo belly is kicking like crazy now - I'm not sure she appreciated your story as much as I did. Thank you.

Oh dear - not been a fun night for you. But you will be able to look back on this with a laugh. Eventually. Hope all passes well.

Oh my, that was a late night for you both - hope you're still asleep just now.

I wonder, will you actually search through her poo? Come up triumphant with a shiny coin??

Hope the bump has settled down, Bollyroo - sorry for the agitation...

She can forget the coin, I'm not looking through poo and if it comes out at school it's tough luck! Dh buggered off to work without even waking me, so I woke at five to nine and dd2 was late for school. Dd1, the coin swallower, is still fast asleep. Wish I was.

Let the slightly more precious than usual child sleep. It's a hard life being minted!

Happened to me too op. Dd narrowly avoided an xray, the a&e doctor elected to run her through a metal detector instead!

My fil told her it would come out in 20ps I will never let her forget the debacle!

Make her check the poo herself! Glad it wasn't stuck anywhere anyway. My DD swallowed a coin (50 euro cent coin, so big) but she was a toddler so she had an excuse... it got stuck in her throat though so she had to be put asleep so they could get it out which was horrible as her airway closed up after and we had to spend the whole night there so she could be given bronchodilators. Bloody paramedics just told us to wait for it to pass through, even though she was vomiting back up all her saliva because it was stuck.

Bloody nora Natsku

WellWhoKnew

Never even got the coin back

DS2 swallowed a steel marble last year. Doctors in A&E were completely disinterested and said people swallow all sorts of things like coat hangers etc. If its not sharp or magnetic and they are breathing and swallowing without difficulty then they are not bothered.

I found it sitting in the bottom of the toilet bowl a few days later. Not quite as shine as when it went in...

Plenty of porridge and vegetables on the menu for your DD!

(And lashings of wine for you)

I love "I put it in my pencil case*