DAVAO CITY — On Monday at around 5:00 p.m. in Kidapawan City, a 9-month-old baby swallows a push pin while her mother orders a milk tea.
“The incident happened so quickly,” Ana Mea Denaguit told Newsline, “I worried why the baby was coughing, then I tried to pull out the pin, but baby Kenji swallowed it fully.”
She quickly proceeded to a private hospital, where an x-ray revealed that the pin was already lodged in the baby’s intestine, necessitating surgery.
She posted for help on her Facebook for the expensive procedure.
The Newsline North Cotabato Bureau went to see her at the government’s Amas Provincial Hospital on Tuesday morning, but the attending physician informed her the pin could voluntarily come out through the baby’s feces and gave her a medical prescription.
She gave her baby the medicine that the doctor ordered at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, and at 7:18 p.m., she texted Newsline, stating, “Maam Good News, Nalibang na niya ang Pin, (Mam Good News, the pin went out with his excrement).”
“I am so thankful, I was so happy when I saw the pin on his diaper,” Ana told Newsline.
She expressed gratitude to those who sent their help for her baby.
