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Our daughter swallowed a quarter when she was two. My wife was driving and noticed that she had gone silent in her car seat, which as parents know can be a bad
by strictnein 2y ago
Our daughter swallowed a quarter when she was two. My wife was driving and noticed that she had gone silent in her car seat, which as parents know can be a bad sign. Our 4 year old son then mentioned that she might have eaten a coin. She rushed her to the ER, which was thankfully close by. It wasn't completely blocking her windpipe but it was very close to doing so.
As a nice souvenir of the incident we do have a great full body x-ray of her with the coin centered right in the middle of her neck.
- sudahtigabulan 2y ago> It wasn't completely blocking her windpipe but it was very close to doing so. I'm wondering why they don't make coins with a hole in the center, like pen caps. There's even an ISO standard about pens. Why not coins? https://www.iso.org/standard/81889.html https://www.iso.org/standard/81889.html
- GuestFAUniverse 2y agoSome countries do, some did. Just search for "coins with holes". (I have danish øre coins with holes around.)