A Massachusetts man was stunned after his X-ray revealed that he accidentally swallowed his AirPod while sleeping.
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38-year-old Brad Gauthier of Worcester said he woke up with slight discomfort in his chest and wasn’t able to drink or breathe. After drinking a cup of water, it caused him to gag and experience a choking-like feeling. However, Gauthier went on with his day and noticed one of his AirPods was missing. According to the Daily Mail, his family even joked that he might have swallowed one of the earbuds. To be on the safe side, he decided to go to the local hospital to relieve his chest issues.
At first, hospital staff assumed the food from his wife’s birthday might have been the cause but Gauthier’s X-ray proved otherwise.
‘It was pretty funny when she [the hospital worker] left the room I could hear a bit of chatter outside – ‘No it couldn’t be?’ She came back in, looks at me, and says: ‘I’ll be damned, you swallowed it,’ he said. The earbud was stuck inside of his esophagus.
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‘They were all jaws a slack, looking at this x-ray, on the screen where you could see it in such clear definition. Fortunately, she was able to get me right through an endoscopy centre they’re affiliated with,’
Doctors performed an endoscopy to remove the AirPod without causing any severe damage. Thankfully, the object didn’t go further into his stomach or trachea.
‘You don’t have a lot of runway if you obstruct your breathing and something happens, who would even think that’s what it was if you wake up to something like that. I’m really lucky things happened the way they did and got it resolved so quickly, along with it being wedged in the position that it was.’