#i cannot overstate how awful barium tastes

[primrosebitch]

So my last post reminded me of this story so I'm going to tell it here

So when i was a tiny child, probably around 5 or so, i decided to swallow a coin, and not because of typical child reasons of putting everything in mouth and oops swallowed it, no this was a decision in which i knew exactly what i was doing and as a child with adhd and no impulse control i chose to ignore the consequences, sadly though my sibling was a snitch and immediately told my mother

Now this would normally be the end of the story, except my body doesn't like to behave and so after my mother didn't find the coin in my poop after a couple of days (i don't remember exactly how many but anywhere from 4-6), she brought me to my pediatrician who didn't quite believe that it hadn't yet left my body, but still she had me go to get an x-ray

Now when i went to get said x-ray they had me drink this horrendous concoction that had something called barium in it to help with the contrast in the x-ray or something like that, and after a reasonable reaction to the awful taste they added chocolate milk powder flavoring so i could actually get it down, which i was able to do, and after suffering through the barium they did the x-ray and low and behold the coin was in fact still inside me, albeit nearly out

#x ray #barium #coin #dumb child things #i cannot overstate how awful barium tastes #and in addition to the horrible taste it's also very thick #i hate it so much #i did get to keep the coin tho #so that's cool #my poor mother tho #she had to look through my poop to find that coin