A girl by chance swallowed a 17cm-long spoon when her dog jumped on her lap while she was eating yoghurt.
Reymy Amelinckx said she had to make a decision between ‘choking or swallowing the spoon’ but felt the implement ‘sliding down into my stomach easily’.
The 28-year-old said she was sitting on the couch with the yoghurt when her energetic Hungarian Vizsla named Marley suddenly jumped on her.
Reymy, from Rumst, Belgium, said: ‘I put the spoon in my mouth so I had my hands free to answer to a message.
‘Just then, Marley decided to leap on me. I used to be so startled I jerked my head back, and before I knew it, the spoon was lodged in my throat.
‘I stood up and commenced to panic.’
Reymy, who works as a medical representative, tried to remove the spoon along with her hand.
(Picture: Jam Press/Reymy Amelinckx)
‘But every thing happened so fast, it was either swallow or choke,’ she said.
When her boyfriend got here home from work, she said she felt too embarrassed to inform him so she ‘pretended nothing was unsuitable’.
‘I didn’t feel bad in any respect – so I didn’t say anything about it straight away.It wasn’t until after dinner that I realised it was actually quite serious,’ she said.
Doctors told her the spoon was too large to pass naturally, so she needed to return home and wait until a gastroscopy may very well be scheduled.
Reymy said: ‘That night was difficult, I felt the spoon moving, sometimes even between my ribs.
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‘It was truly terrifying. I felt bloated and nauseous, and I couldn’t eat without feeling strange.
‘Sleeping was difficult because every position jogged my memory of the spoon in my stomach.’
The utensil was removed two days later under local anaesthetic. Doctors needed to rotate it in my stomach, which caused a small gastric haemorrhage.
She said: ‘It wasn’t nice, but I felt pure relief when it got here out.’
‘I had a sore throat resulting from damage to my oesophagus, a number of minor gastric bleeding episodes, and a sensitive stomach for some time, but no everlasting damage.
‘I did, nevertheless, gain a lifelong popularity as “that girl with the spoon”.’
Despite the nasty experience, Reymy decided to maintain hold of the spoon in query as a keepsake.
‘My boyfriend desires to turn it right into a murals,’ she said. ‘He doesn’t know exactly what yet, but it would definitely be a novel piece.’
Reymy shared some advice for fellow dog and yoghurt lovers – or those pondering of going hands-free with a utensil with a view to text.
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