Toddler Swallows 16 Ball Magnets And Ends Up In The Hospital
Orlando, Florida. 2-year-old Konin Arrington ended up in the Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children after he got his hands on 16 ball-shaped magnets and swallowed them.
Konin has 4 siblings and lives in West DeLand with his family. According to Konin’s family, on May 18th, Konin ingested Bucky Ball Magnets.
These magnets are only meant to only be used by adults as toys for their desks, but Konin got into them accidentally, and without his family’s knowledge.
GoFundMe; pictured above is Konin
At first, Konin’s parents didn’t know what was wrong with Konin; they just knew something was wrong.
Konin’s parents rushed him to the hospital, where doctors discovered the cause of his symptoms. You can very clearly see on Konin’s x-ray below the 16 little magnetic balls he swallowed.
GoFundMe; pictured above is Konin’s x-ray showing the magnetic balls he swallowed
Once the cause of Konin’s problems was discovered, he had to have a Laparotomy, which is a procedure where surgeons cut into his stomach to then do a gastronomy repair.
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Konin then had to have approximately 3 feet of his small intestines removed.
GoFundMe; pictured above Konin smiles after leaving the hospital
“His recovery has been difficult as he has lost over 30% of his body weight due to Small Bowel Syndrome & an infection post-surgery,” his family wrote on a GoFundMe page.
Konin landed back in the hospital and had to have 3 different feeding tubes after losing so much weight.
He’s not out of the woods yet, and he still has a long way to go to recover from all of this. Now, Konin’s mom Hannah is trying to raise as much awareness as she can about the danger of these ball-shaped magnets.
“Our next step is trying to get with the governor of our state,” Konin’s mom Hannah explained on Facebook.
“We do hope to go home soon but his life, for now, is robbed as he’ll be on his feeding tube for 20 hours per day for the foreseeable future even when we do leave the hospital.”
If you would like to donate to the GoFundMe page created to help Konin’s family cover the cost of his medical bills, you can do that here.
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