Oh, the drama!

So, for some reason, Brenan thinks that change tastes good. I have no idea where he found it, but he swallowed what we think is a nickle. It is either a nickle or a quarter, couldn't really tell for sure from the xray picture, since it is digital and can be resized smaller or larger.

We were driving to the laundromat to clean our comforter and had only gotten a couple blocks from our house when I heard him choking and gagging on something. I pulled over real fast to see if I could help him get it out, but he started throwing up when I stopped. He puked for what felt like a really long time, although it couldnt have been more than a couple minutes. I got him out of his seat and out onto the ground, where he continued to throw up. I stripped him off, cleaned him up as well as I could and put him back into the car so I could clean off his seat and the back of the car. There was a huge pool of vomit in his car seat, so I just got in the car and drove home so we could take the seat out and take the cover off to wash it. While I was cleaning, he started throwing up again. All over me and it puddled in my lap... what fun! I stripped off, finished cleaning his seat off, I had put the cover in the washer, so I put all of our clothes in there with it to get all the puked on stuff clean at once. Then we went and took a bath.

For the next three days, every time Brenan tried to eat anything very solid, he would start throwing up again. I was finally able to get him in to his pediatrician and she ordered an xray to see what it was he had swallowed and where it was in his system. At that point it was in his stomach, so it was past two of the hardest parts to get through. I had to put him back into diapers, and search through them to see if I could find the "foreign object" and make sure it came out. I never did find it, though it was "fun" looking!.. At his last xray, we were told it was no longer in there so luckily, he got it out on his own and it will be causing no more problems. It was scary there for a while because they were talking about having to do major surgery on him to get it out if it stayed stuck in there. I am so very glad we don't have to go through that.