A woman accidentally swallowed her wedding ring while taking her - and later spotted the diamond sparkler on an X-ray.
Dannah McMichael, 39, and her husband Randy McMichael, 45, a retired player, were on holiday in when the incident happened. The couple had just arrived in Phuket after a stop in the , where they had dropped their two sons, 11 and two, with relatives.
As the woman was preparing to shower, she took off her wedding ring - but accidentally swallowed it with a handful of vitamins. Dannah, a clinic director from Atlanta, Georgia, said: "I was beyond jet-lagged after all the flights.
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"We went out for dinner and drinks and when I got back, I wanted to shower. Without looking, I threw everything in my mouth and washed it down with water."
As she swallowed the pills, Dannah started choking and quickly noticed that her ring was missing. She said: "When I started choking on the pills and noticed my ring was missing, I knew something was wrong."
The couple turned their hotel room upside down but the ring was nowhere to be found. After Dannah's husband Randy joked asking if she had swallowed it, the couple decided to find a clinic where they could get an X-ray.
Two days later, they eventually found a clinic with an X-ray machine. Dannah said: "We couldn't believe it. I laughed so hard. It was just the funniest thing ever happened to me.
"Randy was very relieved because at first he thought the masseuse swiped it off my finger." Doctors assured Dannah that the ring would pass naturally, and a day later, it did.
She said: "It came out thanks to the magnesium pills. It's the grossest thing I've ever done but I'm wearing it again."
A few years ago, a woman accidentally . Jenna Evans, 29, said she was dreaming about a "sketchy situation" involving "bad guys" on a high-speed train.
In order to protect her ring, she popped it in her mouth and took a gulp, before settling back to sleep. But when she woke up in the morning, she found custom-made designer ring was actually missing.
After telling her fiancé Bob and "laughing for an hour and a half", the couple went straight to the doctors. The ring was eventually retrieved but not after a serious ordeal.
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