He Ate WHAT?

So in the midst of moving stuff today, Joe comes up to me and tells me that he swallowed a little metal thing. Great, I thought. Oh well. It will pass. I thought that it was a small ring from a key chain. Not ideal, but not too bad.

We had lunch, and he again starts talking about what he swallowed. He showed me what it was. The button battery, like in a pen light. Nice. So I look online, and it tells me that if your kids swallows a battery, take them to the ER. Nice. Click here for a link on what to do if your kid swallows a button battery (or if you do :)

So, Brent and the 4 other kids head off for the park, and Joe and I head for the ER. Luckily there is one in our little town. It's only about 2 minutes away (closer than Wal-Mart, Mom). We get there, and get signed in, and they call us back.

The Dr. comes in, and says that swallowing a coin isn't too bad, because it will come out no problem. But batteries are tricky. First he wants to do an x-ray to be sure that he did in fact swallow the battery. The Dr. goes out, and comes back in a few minutes. He said that he looked it up, and that as long as the battery passes in 48 hours, it's ok to have in your system. He was afraid that he was going to have to pump Joe's tummy or something. So that major crisis was evaded.

So we take him to the x-ray room to see if he did eat the battery. He did. The x-ray showed that he had the button battery in his stomach. This was good news, the Dr. told us. The battery was not stuck in his throat or passages. It made it to the stomach.

So now, we just wait for it to "pass". The Dr. ordered lots of greasy food, like Taco Bell or McDonalds or Pizza. Dr's orders! We are supposed to come back in tomorrow and have another x-ray to see if it's moving on, or if it's passed. Plus, we're on poop monitor to find the button battery. Any takers on that hunt?

After we left the ER, we went to McDonalds for dinner. Greasy double cheeseburger with fries. Yummy! Then we headed on over to the park to play. What a day!