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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMy daughter had emergency surgery Saturday night.
Her fiance called from Orlando, where he has had to be for work. She is in Madison.
She had a piece of metal stuck in her throat. At first, they though it might be a shard of metal from opening a can with a can opener. But it does not look like that. They thought i could have been a piece of steel wool, but she uses a plastic scrubber, and does not have any of that in her house. It looks like a staple from a food package. I think the food industry is getting more lax all the time.
And she is a musician. She plays the flute. She has two concerts coming up in two weeks.
She came through the surgery just fine, and is resting at home with her two cats. We went to Madison and made sure she had everything she needed, plenty of soft foods, and all her meds. The doc said she is doing well. She can even play her two concerts.
Scary times.
elleng
(130,711 posts)So glad she can play her concerts.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Glad she is OK.
rurallib
(62,373 posts)dana_b
(11,546 posts)I am glad that she's alright. That is some scary stuff. Now we all have to carefully check every bite of food before swallowing?
murielm99
(30,712 posts)chocolate chip cookies. Soft cookies, remember. I bit into one and broke a tooth. There was a coiled piece of metal in the cookie.
I do think the food industry is lax.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)container back in those days. One of the bottles was only slightly filled with Dr. Pepper & contained a piece of bottling machinery!
I'm sorry your daughter had to go through that & thanks for sharing; it serves as a reminder for us to be wary.
libodem
(19,288 posts)Glad she is on the mend.
Pool Hall Ace
(5,849 posts)The kitties will take great care of her.
MiddleFingerMom
(25,163 posts).
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On separation from the Army, I got a job building railroad boxcars in Tennessee. One Friday,
I spent most of the day grinding spot welds smooth. The ex-MsMFM and I took off for my folks'
place in Southern Michigan when I got off -- despite the snowstorm (meh... I was RAISED in
Michigan).
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However, it turned into a full-blown (and blowin') blizzard and the little itsy-bitsy piece of
metal chose that time to actually lodge itself IN my eyeball. One-eyed cryin' that coula probably
filled 2-liter bottles. The ex was nervous driving in snow (despite being raised in Germany),
we had no money nor insurance, and safety and help (my folks) was a mere 4 hours away.
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I drove through that blizzard (we saw tractor-trailers and one State Trooper that had slid off
the road along the way) and to the ER on arrival. No permanent damage... but PAINful and
scary.
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I usedta be kind of a badass.
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Even though I was cryin' like a little tiny baby-la-la the whole way.
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Hope she (and they) knock their concert outta the park -- she deserves it for karma.
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pacalo
(24,721 posts)conditions. I can't even imagine how scary that must have been.
Having lived on flat land all my life, I had a rude awakening when my husband & I drove to Gatlinburg, TN, one November. I had never drove in the mountains before. Add sleet to that inexperience & you can imagine how my knees were knocking while driving those dark two-lane highways -- & narrow dirt roads, once we were on our way up to our cabin.
By our third or fourth day there, we decided to visit the Cherokee village & casino on top of this huge mountain in nearby North Carolina. I started out overly cautious & slow, getting to the side whenever possible to allow faster traffic behind me to pass. But by the time I was about 3/4 of the way to the top, I was eating potato chips with one hand & driving with the other!
Looking back now:
elleng
(130,711 posts)Was pretty bad when I scratched my cornea w a piece of paper one morning, but NOTHING like your boxcar/blizzard trauma!