Add this one to the bizarre files. Out of Florida (where else), comes this story of a toddler who swallowed a penny. According to the story on MomsLikeMe.com, instead of going to a doctor, the parents spent a week sifting through dirty diapers hoping to find the penny after it came out on the other end. At the end of the week, the parents dropped off the toddler with the grandparents with instructions to dig through the diapers in search of the lucky penny.
Of course, grandpa wouldn’t have any of that and in an ingenious bit of logic, he grabbed the metal detector from the garage. Sure enough, the thing beeped when it was passed over the child’s abdomen. Then after ever dirty diaper, he would use the metal detector to scan the diaper and then the baby again just to verify the penny hadn’t come out yet. And wouldn’t you know it, the grandparents eventually had a winning diaper, which they saved for the parents to dig through. The penny was recovered (hooray for the college fund) and the kid is fine.
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It’s these sorts of stories that scare the crap out of me.
Did you hear about the little kid a couple of years ago who GREW GRASS IN HER LUNGS because her parents had her outside while they were planting grass seeds and she inhaled them?! True (ly horrifying) story.
Note to children – do not eat/swallow/inhale things that you shouldn’t. This is a universal plea from all parents. We do not enjoy frantic doctor visits, digging through poop, or worrying ourselves silly that you may have possibly inhaled that bottle of baby powder and are therefore growing a baby in your lungs. STOP THE MADNESS!
Oy, I can’t imagine that. Somethings are better left alone.