Mr. Money Pants

You all remember the shoe in the nose post, I'm sure (See: Caution - Small Parts http://danisamrn-graceandtristan.blogspot.com/2008/11/caution-small-parts.html). Well, last night Tristan decided he needed to top that and swallowed a coin of some sort - I'm guessing a penny or a dime as that is all that was in his bank. All I hear is "Mommy! Tristan swallowed a penny!" So, I go back to see what's up and I asked Tristan if he ate some money.

T: "Uh-huh"

Me: "Really?"

T: "Yep, all gone, see (opening his mouth with his hands, sticking out his tongue, and saying aaaaaa)?"

Me: "Did you swallow it like you do food?"

T: "Uh-huh"

Me: (Pointing to his throat) "Did it go down here and into your tummy."

T: "Yep, it all gone."

I continued to ask the questions in as many ways as I could possibly think of, desperately hoping he'd realize what I was saying and change his answer. Nope, he kept saying he swallowed it.

Grace is panicking at this point "Mommy, he told me he wasn't serious, he didn't really do it!" As I'm calling the doctor... "Mommy - don't call the doctor, Tristan said he didn't really do it!" As I'm on the phone Grace is trying to talk me out of telling the doc anything, and Tristan is in the background screaming and screwing around... obviously not in any distress over the matter.

I got off the phone and Grace is at my side in tears "Mommy, Tristan is breathing, he's okay, we don't need to take him to the doctor." I agreed with her statement and told her that we'll take him to the doctor in the morning just to be on the safe side. I also explained to her just what they would do to him when we got there because I could see the fear in her eyes as she asked "are they going to try to get it out with their hand?" I reassured her that they wouldn't hurt him, they would just take a picture of his belly-just like we take pictures at home, except with these pictures they'd be able to see his insides. She followed up with (in tears by now) "But Mommy, I don't want my brother to have swallowed a penny, I don't want him to die because I LOVE him!!" Is that not the sweetest thing you've ever heard?

Later in the evening, Tristan denied the whole incident, so I didn't know what to think. But, I got up this morning and took him in anyway, and sure enough, there's a glowing area in his large intestine... Now I get to dig through poop for the next few days - lucky me.