
So I'm sure that most of you have heard about the lost penny, but just in case here it is. Last Saturday Jake found a penny in the front room and was so excited. He was watching football with his dad after a grueling morning of soccer. Reed noticed that Jake was sucking on the penny and asked him to stop putting the penny in his mouth. Jake obeyed, but as most little boys do, returned the penny to his mouth as soon as his dad looked away. I was in the kitchen and heard Jake scream, "my penny, my penny. I swallowed my penny" He ran in the kitchen and was trying to spit it out. It turns out the penny was already to far down for him to get it out. We didn't know what to do, whether to take him to the hospital or just let nature run it's course. So I did what I always do and called my mom. She told me that I needed to take him to the hospital to make sure that everything was okay. Thank goodness she is much smarter than we are, and told us to take him to the Emergency Room. Jake and I headed off leaving Reed and Cole at home because we didn't think Cole would enjoy sitting for hours in the waiting room. After the initial check in and examination we discovered that the little penny he swallowed was stuck in his throat.
This particular hospital didn't have the special pediatric doctor that was required to extract the penny so we had to be transported to another hospital 20 minutes away. But as you will see with this story it just can't be as easy as putting him in my car and driving him. They wouldn't let me take him at all, we had to be transported in an ambulance! 





