Our First E.R. Visit

Maggie swallowed an eye-screw and we survived our first official visit to the E.R.

We moved into a new apartment last month and 2 weeks ago I decided that it was time to get the place decorated. I have a tray with different nails and screws in it that I had sitting on the table. Of course Maggie wanted to 'help'. She got a little eye-screw and was pretending it was a key, going around to all the doors and 'unlocking' them. I figured this was fairly innocent and safe, so I let her play with it....little did I know.
As I was hanging a picture I looked over and saw Maggie put the 'key' in her mouth. Just as I said 'Maggie, spit that out', there was a little choke and it was gone....oh great. Since we had just moved recently we still had no phone set up and since I have a frugal husband we don't have a cell phone. I ran upstairs and asked the upstairs neighbor if I could use her phone. I called my Dr.'s office hoping that they would say 'ahhh, no big deal, it will pass,' but instead I got, 'take her to the E.R. NOW.'....oh great.
Of course it was a Thursday and Dave has the car in Salt Lake ALL day on Thursdays (we're talking 7am - 8pm). My head was spinning trying to figure out how to get to the hospital with no car and no car seats. My neighbor had to leave so she couldn't help, but asked if I could just take Maggie to Utah Valley Hospital. In my flustered state I forgot that we had moved only about 4 blocks from the hospital....yes, yes, I could walk over there....duh. I loaded up the girls in the stroller and off we went.
Everyone in the E.R. was so nice and helpful. They even gave my girls little dollies to have and entertain them. We were there for about 3 hours and both of the girls were so good. Chloe had been grumpy and miserable all morning with 6 teeth coming in all at once, but she was an absolute angel. I know I was being blessed and watched over.
They did an x-ray of Maggie's abdomen to make sure that the screw had made it into her stomach and hadn't gotten caught up anywhere on the way. Sure enough it was sitting at the bottom of her stomach right where they wanted it to be. They sent me home with instructions to come back in 2 days for another x-ray to make sure it had passed, but the next day I spotted a little gold in her diaper. I washed it up so she can keep her souvenir.

Hanging out in the waiting room.

I grabbed the DVD player on the way out the door...so glad I did.

Waiting for x-rays with her new dolly.

Such a good girl. She spent most of the time just sitting in the stroller.

Getting sleepy. It was a long afternoon.

Hospital bands and eye-screws....so much fun.

I didn't really know if Maggie understood much of what was going on, but the other day we were watching Bolt and at the end of the movie they have to take Bolt and Penny to the hospital. Maggie said 'has to go to the hospital....go see the fishies', (I had totally forgotten they they had an aquarium in the waiting room)...then she looked at me really sheepishly and said 'I swawoed da key'....I guess it did make an impression.