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Payton Bushnell is the adorable three-year-old you see above. She’s also the incredibly fortunate young lady who swallowed an astonishing 37 (THUR-TEEE SEVV-UNNN) rare-earth magnets lived to blabber about it.
Payton ate the balls — which came from a buckyball set — one by one, until they collected in her stomach and formed the necklace shape you see in the photo. They eventually started snapping onto each other in her intestines. The doctors came to her parents to tell them that “we have to cut your daughter open,” which has got to be just about the most terrifying thing a parent can hear. Surgery on such a young patient is dangerous, but the magnets had torn three holes in Payton’s lower intestines, and one in her stomach.
Thankfully, the surgery was a success, and again, Payton is making a full recovery. But my goodness, you turn your back for one second and they’re running off and eating three dozen magnets. I blame Magnus. [KPTV via SF Gate via Brian Lam]
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Cute but stupid !! Didn’t the parents spot the toddler eating things she shouldn’t be ?
If they were busy in the kitchen or something they may not have noticed how attracted the little girl was to the magnets. There are always unknown forces acting on children that repel them from regular food, yet have an invisible force beckoning them to eat everything else.
It’s a really polarised school of thought to be a parent who watches their kid every second of the day.
Very true, we don’t know the whole story but surely when she started to stick to door handles and anything metak sticking to her tummy should have been a clue !
It seems my puns were wasted on the youth, I wholeheartedly agree with you though!
I did pick up on the Pun-tastic comment….