Ellie's Penny

I LOVE my little Ellie. She is a handful, but so so cute and fun. So, for the past couple of weeks she has been acting a little funny. She was choking on her food, drooling and had a terrible cough. I thought that she may have eaten something and had it stuck in her throat. So, I spoke with the doctors about it and they said maybe I should have an x-ray done. I was ready to do the x-ray when she pooped out a button. A big black button, I have a picture but will spare all of you.

So, she continued to have a cough, but I thought it was because she had some residual swelling from the button. Well her cough didn't get any better, she didn't have any other symptoms, and she was still choking on some of her food, that she never had problems with prior. So, after some more discussion with my great doctors, they said that I should probably take her in to get an x-ray. I just thought that I was crazy, but I decided that I should do the x-ray just to make sure things looked OK. So, we go to the new Riverton hospital (which is great), and the x-ray tech did the x-ray and immediately said "Whoa, did you know about this?" I looked on the screen and there is a huge coin in her throat!!!! What??? It looked like a quarter it looked so big. So, they immediately send me up to Primary Children's hospital to have them remove it. Since it had been in her system so long (mother of the year), they had to take her into surgery and remove it because they were worried about swelling and scar tissue. So, we spent ALL DAY at the ER at Primary's. Finally they took her in for surgery around 8:00 at night. That little girl is a trooper, she had hardly anything to eat in the morning, and couldn't eat at all until the surgery was over. She didn't take a nap, and still smiled and talked to the doctors and was a little angel. She didn't even flinch, when they put the IV in her hand. She was the last surgery of the day and when we went into the pre-op room, the doctor jokingly said "So are there any bets on what year the coin is?" They were so cute, and Ellie charmed all of them with her cute goofy grin!

After 15 minutes or so the surgeon came into the waiting room, with a jar that had the penny in it! That is the most expensive Penny there is. I will forever keep it, and show all of Ellie's boyfriends :) They sent us home shortly after because Ellie was doing so well. It is so fun to be able to feed her bread and goldfish again. We are also very grateful that it didn't do any damage. She had a small ulceration from the pressure of the penny, but nothing damaging. It will be nice when everything doesn't go in the mouth anymore.