Thursday night we got home late from doing house stuff. I ran to KFC to grab some dinner and pick up the boys who had joined Sadie at a "surf class." We got home and I set Payten down on the floor (near some toys (nothing small) and some baby wipes). I started dishing up dinner and Nick heard Payten choking. This girls puts EVERYTHING in her mouth. She is constantly digging at anything she can find on the carpet to put in her mouth ... lint, food crumbs, whatever. This night she found something, put it in her mouth, and started choking. Nick swiped in her mouth and nothing was there but she still wasn't breathing well. He turned her over and started pounding on the back of her back. She spit up but nothing came out other than saliva. She was now breathing but over the next hour, she continued to burp, spit up and eventually throwing up. We decided that something was still caught and took her to Primary Children's Hospital around 10:30 pm. When we got there, she kept throwing up (probably 6 times in just the first few minutes of walking into Primary Childrens). They said they knew something was caught in there and most likely in her esophagus and not her airway. I originally thought she had swalled a baby wipe because that was all that she had there. She had opened the package and took out 6-7 wipes and had wadded them all up and she was eating on one of them so I thought she had maybe just ate one. The doctor at Primarys said that a wipe would not show up in an x-ray so they would do a swallow test where they make her drink the Barium and then take a picture. They took a picture and sure enough ... there was something. Not a wipe but a coin. Seems like she thought she was a slot machine and needed a coin inside of her. I just knew that the boys had been playing with their left-over Chuck E Cheese coins earlier and near the area she was sitting so thought it was a Chuck E Cheese coin (size of a quarter) which on the x-ray it looked huge in her little belly. By the time they did the swallow test, the coin had dropped down into her stomach. She was much happier once it was down inside her stomach. After that, she was all smiles for the nurses. They said that now we would just wait and have her poop it out. We had to watch the next couple of days for it to come out. They were worried that if it didn't come out because it was larger that it could possible block her intestines/bowels. Well Saturday, it came out. Easton asked if it was now a chocolate coin. It came out and it was only a DIME! I can't imagine if it really was a Chuck E Cheese coin or quarter. We are grateful she was okay and know we take health for granted sometimes. Nick said that we are going to call her "MONEY" from now on. She is eating money and that trip to Primarys will definitely be costing us some MONEY!!
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