Five-Year-Old Has 36 Magnets Removed From Her Stomach—Then Her Mother Remembers the Dining-Room Camera
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Chapter 26 - THE LAST X-RAYTwo years after surgery, Dr. Shah discharged Lily from routine surgical follow-up.
No chronic bowel problems.
No nutritional issues.
No new adhesions causing symptoms.
Scar faded.
Normal growth.
She was seven and furious that the appointment made her late for art class.
Dr. Shah showed her the old X-ray.
Only because Lily asked.
“Those are all in me?”
“Were.”
“Thirty-six?”
“Yes.”
“That’s a lot.”
“It is.”
Lily looked at me.
“Did you cry?”
“Constantly.”
She smiled.
Then asked Dr. Shah:
“Did you save them?”
My stomach tightened.
Dr. Shah answered:
“No. They were handled as medical/evidence material and were not something we kept as a souvenir.”
Thank God.
Lily shrugged.
“Good. They were ugly.”
Exactly.
Objects returning to proper size again.
May you like
Metal spheres.
Not destiny.
