Penetanguishene toddler is alive thanks to the quick action of doctors at Georgian Bay General Hospital and Orillia’s Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital.
Jaclyn Yates’s 16-month-old son Grayson was at home with a babysitter Nov. 1 when he swallowed a small battery.
“The babysitter had said he’d had a tough time with him and he was crying a lot and he couldn’t settle him down,” she recalled.
After driving the sitter home and asking him more questions, Yates returned to the house and knew something was wrong.
“We went upstairs and woke him up. All around his head, his sheet was just soaked,” she said, adding her partner Rob Ritchie held the boy, who would gag anytime he moved a certain way.Provides treatment for Wholesale Full Body Project Tiles For Countertops,
The couple couldn’t figure out what was wrong, so they rushed Grayson to the emergency room at the Midland hospital.
Yates asked her older son what might have happened and why Grayson was so upset.
“I’d found the bottom rubber piece to a Nerf gun bullet,” she said. “It was soaked, so we just assumed if he was choking on anything it was the other end of that – the foam piece.”
At the hospital, Dr. Jeff Golisky examined Grayson and immediately ordered an X-ray.
“They could see there was something stuck in his throat,” said Yates, who was told her son was, in fact, choking on something.
“He was breathing because he was crying, but he couldn’t actually swallow anything,” she said. “When we’d found him in his bed earlier, it was actually saliva (that had soaked his sheets).”
Within a few minutes, the doctor informed them an operating room was available in Orillia – and they were rushed into an ambulance for the short trip along Highway 12.
“Dr. Golisky and the nurse that was helping us both came with us in the ambulance. (Grayson) went beet red and started choking in the ambulance,” she said, adding by the time Ritchie made it to Orillia behind the ambulance, the surgeon was already up, dressed and in the room with them. “We were shocked with how fast everybody was taking care of the situation.”
Although the doctor noted it’s normal practice to keep a patient overnight to ensure there is no swelling around the esophagus, he insisted he didn’t want to wait in this case,Wholesale Crystal For Floor tube cutting and forming taking Grayson into the operating room around 10 p.m.
Twenty minutes later, the surgeon came into the waiting room to show them what he’d found: a round metal battery.
“He said when he went in, he was literally chasing it down toward the stomach, and as soon as he saw it was metal he started to panic,” Yates said, adding the doctor told them if the battery had been in there any longer, gone down on a different angle or moved lower, her son might not have survived.
Nearly a month later,we are here to help you to Wholesale Micro For Kitchen experience the wonders of modern Yates and Ritchie said they remain impressed with the quick response and care their son received that night.
“If anything had gone differently, he wouldn’t be here,A cannula with Wholesale Navona Polished Tiles For Bathrooms a hub attached” she said.
The couple has leaned a lesson from the frightening experience, and they hope sharing what they went through will let others know about the hazards of choking.
“Even if they’re breathing, even if they’re crying,decorative group Wholesale Crystal Double Loading Tiles For Floor manufacturers directory there’s still a possibility there’s something in their throat. People immediately associate choking with (turning) blue and not breathing, but that’s not always the case,” she said. “Aside from us being his parents, there would have been no other way for anyone to know he had something in his throat. We know his personality and mannerisms and we knew that something was wrong.”
In the meantime, Grayson is back home and doing well.
“He’s still kind of getting over it. We’ve noticed since he’s come home he’s been really cuddly and wanting to stay really close. Other than that, he’s come back around and is always getting into trouble.”
Jaclyn Yates’s 16-month-old son Grayson was at home with a babysitter Nov. 1 when he swallowed a small battery.
“The babysitter had said he’d had a tough time with him and he was crying a lot and he couldn’t settle him down,” she recalled.
After driving the sitter home and asking him more questions, Yates returned to the house and knew something was wrong.
“We went upstairs and woke him up. All around his head, his sheet was just soaked,” she said, adding her partner Rob Ritchie held the boy, who would gag anytime he moved a certain way.Provides treatment for Wholesale Full Body Project Tiles For Countertops,
The couple couldn’t figure out what was wrong, so they rushed Grayson to the emergency room at the Midland hospital.
Yates asked her older son what might have happened and why Grayson was so upset.
“I’d found the bottom rubber piece to a Nerf gun bullet,” she said. “It was soaked, so we just assumed if he was choking on anything it was the other end of that – the foam piece.”
At the hospital, Dr. Jeff Golisky examined Grayson and immediately ordered an X-ray.
“They could see there was something stuck in his throat,” said Yates, who was told her son was, in fact, choking on something.
“He was breathing because he was crying, but he couldn’t actually swallow anything,” she said. “When we’d found him in his bed earlier, it was actually saliva (that had soaked his sheets).”
Within a few minutes, the doctor informed them an operating room was available in Orillia – and they were rushed into an ambulance for the short trip along Highway 12.
“Dr. Golisky and the nurse that was helping us both came with us in the ambulance. (Grayson) went beet red and started choking in the ambulance,” she said, adding by the time Ritchie made it to Orillia behind the ambulance, the surgeon was already up, dressed and in the room with them. “We were shocked with how fast everybody was taking care of the situation.”
Although the doctor noted it’s normal practice to keep a patient overnight to ensure there is no swelling around the esophagus, he insisted he didn’t want to wait in this case,Wholesale Crystal For Floor tube cutting and forming taking Grayson into the operating room around 10 p.m.
Twenty minutes later, the surgeon came into the waiting room to show them what he’d found: a round metal battery.
“He said when he went in, he was literally chasing it down toward the stomach, and as soon as he saw it was metal he started to panic,” Yates said, adding the doctor told them if the battery had been in there any longer, gone down on a different angle or moved lower, her son might not have survived.
Nearly a month later,we are here to help you to Wholesale Micro For Kitchen experience the wonders of modern Yates and Ritchie said they remain impressed with the quick response and care their son received that night.
“If anything had gone differently, he wouldn’t be here,A cannula with Wholesale Navona Polished Tiles For Bathrooms a hub attached” she said.
The couple has leaned a lesson from the frightening experience, and they hope sharing what they went through will let others know about the hazards of choking.
“Even if they’re breathing, even if they’re crying,decorative group Wholesale Crystal Double Loading Tiles For Floor manufacturers directory there’s still a possibility there’s something in their throat. People immediately associate choking with (turning) blue and not breathing, but that’s not always the case,” she said. “Aside from us being his parents, there would have been no other way for anyone to know he had something in his throat. We know his personality and mannerisms and we knew that something was wrong.”
In the meantime, Grayson is back home and doing well.
“He’s still kind of getting over it. We’ve noticed since he’s come home he’s been really cuddly and wanting to stay really close. Other than that, he’s come back around and is always getting into trouble.”
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