Interesting day

Last week Matthew was sick. He had a double ear infection along with cutting 3 molars. I could tell because he was not happy and felt a little warm. So I took his temperature to make sure with a new thermometer that I got and sure enough he had a fever. I put the thermometer on the coffee table and went to call the daycare, doctor, work, etc while Matthew watched Chugington. When I came back he was on the floor playing with the thermometer! I took it right from him and put it in the kitchen on the island. So Tuesday night, over a week from this incident, I start cleaning and putting things back up. I noticed the thermometer and went to put it up in Matthew’s room. That’s when I noticed that the back and a button battery were missing from it!! In case you don’t know button batteries are very bad if swallowed. The can get stuck in the esophagus and erode it to the aorta which can rupture and cause hemorrhaging. You can imagine the horror stories I read about this happen to peoples poor little babies =( . Needless to say I did not sleep well that night. It had been a week since Matthew played with it so chances were he did not get a hold of it but I searched the house high and low and could not find it. I did vacuum twice so there is a good chance I vacuumed it up. I called the nurse just to ease my worry. She talked to the doctor and they wanted me to bring him in just to make sure. After looking over him they thought he didn’t swallow it but because they are so dangerous she wanted to do an x-ray just to make sure. So off we went across the street to look at Matthew’s insides. After waiting 45 mins he was up. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would. He just had to lay down on an exam table and the picture was made really quick. We did have to hold him down and that upset him but he got a sucker when he was done so that made everything better. Luckily there was no battery seen in him. I still triple check everything when I got home and still haven’t found it. Any ways the moral of the story is to be very careful about what you have in your house. I had no idea that thermometer had a button battery or that it was that easy to get into. And it a thermometer that is meant to take a temperature of a baby! From those stories I read on line this ending could have been very very bad. I’m so glad and thank God that it was a good ending.

This is the thermometer that I had: