I'm quite sure I've just done something mad...

[lostinwails]

TMI alert! Have had a very bad tummy bug and am left in a position where venturing more that 30 seconds from the loo would be a foolish risk. I've decided that the water I'm drinking is passing through my body at great speed so in a rash moment I've swallowed a round piece of floaty plastic to time how long it takes to come out. I'm mad aren't I, too long on the sofa with only flat lemonade and salty crisps for company I think.

How did I miss this thread!!

I have not heard the diahorrea sing since primary school (although we added sound effects for good measure)

I swallowed a $2 coin once (about the same size as a pound coin). It has never appeared. I do wonder if it is still lurking in my colon appreciating interest.

Or appreciating the view!

Oh God and now I've gone and taken immodium without checking with MN first and that looks like a bad idea too. I vow from hereafter never to put anything in my mouth until I have checked with the far superior brain of mumsnet.

PlentyOfPockets you shall now become my goto person to check whether things a floaty enough for experimental purposes.

What is the general consensus on a cup of activia yogurt, was thinking it would soothe my sore tummy and add 'good' bacteria (no requirement for it to float though Plenty)

I wouldn't get activia, get Yeo valley instead. Much nicer and still bio-live. :)

And in a couple of days' time, you might want to take some prune juice or something to counter the effects of imodium.

HowsTheSerenity, from my experience in a children's hospital (I used to wield a very sensitive hand held metal detector over children's bodies to see if they had swallowed metal, you can see where my bowel obsession is coming from eh?) metal tarnishes very quickly in the bowel so you shouldn't expect to find the same shiny coin at the other end, this was an assuption most parents made as I would usher them out of the department with plastic gloves and a sieve.

How do so many people swallow coins? I mean I had to swallow a small piece of lego with lots of water (and yes, yes I know now I was being a loon). That's out third poster who swallowed money.

Unbelieveable! Lostinwails! No lego? I've been following your progress religiously.

Ah well, good luck with the yoghurt.

I thought that it might make a clinking sound as it hit the toilet....and it was only 5 years ago.

My mum puts money in the plum pudding at Christmas. I state that she never gave it to me and she says that I ate it. She is probably right. And that is how I ate it.

My dog ate all the easter eggs one year. There was sparkly dog shit in the back yard for about two weeks after. Pretty.

I cant believe this No Lego?!!

My Dh plays pool on a Thurs and its usually the night i watch tv in bed etc and he comes back to me snoring..last night I trawled hysterically through this thread and he came home to find me laughing my head off.

So today even he texts to say has that woman shat lego yet? I log on to check and nothing. nada. zilch. I am deflated.

PlentyOfPockets - I read your post last night about waking the house up and I cried, and I mean CRIED with laughter. DH thinks I'm a nutter.

I haven't laughed like that in years.

So sorry TheDoctorsWife46, I realise I have let a good many people down with my lack of forethought. Next time I will check with mumsnet before I chose my method of gauging transit times. this looks like it would do the trick whilst making the day even more enjoyable.

Lost, you may have something to contribute.

Yeo valley is great, I also quite like Biopot, mmmmm yum!

Immodium doesn't block me up very long, maybe 2 days? 6 weeks? Yikes

PMSL at TheDoctorsWife46's DH (so presumably a Dr?) asking "has that woman shat lego yet?"

OMG How did I miss this?

Just lost a chunk of the morning pmsl through this thread.

And still no lego?

According to DaisyFields it may be 6 weeks before we see lego now I've taken immodium.

This is the best thread ever.

it's still not out??

i expect it has appeared and you missed it. you could try dropping bits of lego into the toilet bowel at various velocities to determine how well they float, whether they instantly vanish round the u-bend, thatsort of thing??

or, alternatively, you could ring your dr and confess

When your bowel experiment fails
Because it's still lost in lost in Wales
Diarrhoea, Diarrhoea

lostinwails!! You should have been pooing through a sieve!!! Now we will never know :(..........

hahahaha at the Dr asking if a random internet sprite has shat lego yet.

Immodium only works for a day or two for me, so it may not take that long.

Alternatively, she does not need to drop lego into the toilet bowl, she can recreate the experiment by filling her washing bowl and watch lego bop around in there. Much cleaner.

Especially if she has young children who likes to bite on lego...

You must update this thread if said lego ever makes an appearance.

Sorry to ruin the magic but despite my name DH is not a doctor, however during mundane texts over our DD he rudely interupted to say yeah yeah, never mind that..has the lego arrived yet?

I have broken the news to him and he is terribly upset he says next time would you mind making it bloody duplo so you dont miss it! We've all been on the edge of our seats you know!

No lego??

What have you done to it?!