A woman lost her wedding ring while on vacation, but she found it in an unexpected place.
Dana McMichael explained how she accidentally swallowed her ring in a recent Instagram post.
“I’m jet lagged after traveling from Atlanta to the Philippines to Thailand,” she began her post.
“I took my rings off to get in the shower and without a second thought, I had two magnesium tablets and two hair vitamins in my hand along with my rings. Without looking, I just popped them all in my mouth and washed them down with water,” McMichael continued.
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She quickly realized her mistake: “When I took the medicine and started choking and realized my ring was missing, I knew something was wrong,” she recalled.
She ended up visiting a medical facility in Thailand and getting an imaging scan. “2 days later I had an x-ray and sure enough, there it was – my wedding ring!” she wrote, sharing a video of an x-ray that detailed the rings entwined around her stomach.
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McDaniel is the wife of retired NFL player Randy McMichael. Newsweek Recounting the experience, she blamed the ring trouble on fatigue from the long distance journey. She told the outlet that she had flown to the Philippines with the couple’s two sons and dropped them off there before flying to Thailand.
“I was travelling with an 11-year-old and a two-year-old so I didn’t have a chance to catch up on sleep and suffered from severe jet lag,” she said.
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McDaniel recounted how after a long, tiring day of sightseeing in Thailand, she took some vitamin and magnesium tablets and immediately began choking. “I tried to throw up but I couldn’t, I drank more water and tried to push them down with my fingers,” she said. Newsweek.
McDaniel and her husband later discovered the ring was missing and searched the hotel room, only to be horrified to discover she had likely swallowed it along with pills.
After an X-ray confirmed it, they decided to find humor in the situation. “We all had a good laugh, despite the language barrier,” she said.
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She told the outlet that she waited for the ring to pass naturally with the help of magnesium tablets.
“At first people were concerned about my health and how I was going to get the ring out,” McDaniel said of the reaction to her Instagram post, which has been viewed more than 5 million times to date, “but after a while people were laughing with me.”
She added, “Someone once said it to me the best: ‘Who would have thought your ring would have a crazier journey than you?'”
