A First For Me! Nickel found In Human! UPDATE AFTER X RAY IN REPLIES

[West Jersey Detecting]

A woman on Craig's List contacted me a few weeks back. She did not want unnecessary x-rays done on her 4 year old who had swallowed a coin. Her doctor recommended a metal detector as an alternative. I was hesitant, and told her I would think about it and she should wait to see if it passes. After a few weeks she was concerned that the coin had not passed and contacted me again. This time I moved into action.

I stopped by their apartment building this evening. They met me outside the lobby, to reduce the risk of EMI interfering. First I tried my Garrett pinpointer, but it did not detect anything. Then I broke out the V3 with the 5.3 inch coil (due to the EMI in the city). They told me he swallowed a dime, but it came up nickel! When I showed him a pocketful of change he confirmed it and pointed to the shiny nickel. it was higher than I expected, right around his diaphragm.

You should have seen the look on that boy's face when I broke out the Lesche!!!

 

[njnydigger]

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Way to go on the superb service Neil

BTW, you don't happen to do proctology exams, do you

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

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Haha !

Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[zaxfire69]

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That is an awesome story. Made me laugh out loud..Loved the Lesche comment. Awesome..

 

[willie d]

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So did you cut a flap or a plug?

 

[m bryan]

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Did you nail her insurance co? Those scans are expensive!

 

[mobile miner]

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I`m gonna have to do some think`en to beat that one.

 

[celtex]

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So did you cut a flap or a plug?

I would have used a probe and popped it with a screw driver. Less of a hole!

 

[De.Digger]

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LMAO !!!!!

 

[N.J.THer]

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That is a very nice service to offer.

Do the doctors have any concerns about the Nickel getting lodged and causing a blockage. Has the kid been pooping? Although with as high as you stated it was it should not be in the intestine yet.

Hold the kid by the feet and shake? The nickel maybe on the surface just under the tongue... No need to make a hole.

NJ

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

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That is a very nice service to offer.

Do the doctors have any concerns about the Nickel getting lodged and causing a blockage. Has the kid been pooping? Although with as high as you stated it was it should not be in the intestine yet.

Hold the kid by the feet and shake? The nickel maybe on the surface just under the tongue... No need to make a hole.

NJ

Needless to say, the parents are concerned and will seek out their Dr for advice.

 

[thrillathahunt]

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Good story!

I have a pin in my lower leg bone (tibia) due to a motorcycle accident years ago. My son still gets a kick every so often running his detector across it and hearing the beep. Funny though, I never have trouble going through the detector at the airport.

 

[Wldbil]

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Great story!!! We use to offer to scan candy at halloween for the parents and they loved it!!!

 

[gxray]

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A friend of mine and I were metal detecting a field behind his house and he said " watch this" as he scanned with his Ace 250 over his dog laying next to him. The detector started beeping. I was like , "What in the world?"...he told me his dog had been shot with a shotgun yrs ago and there was still buckshot lodged under the skin.

 

[BuckleBoy]

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Good thing you didn't have your disc. set too high.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

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Way funny!


Did you tell his mother to "keep the change?"

 

[mts]

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Well, I wouldn't be so sure about your results. I had a weird experience with swiping a detector over my son's butt and chest. It seems that sensitive detectors can pick up signals from your body that are not coming from swallowed items. I don't know what really causes them. An X-ray is the only way to be certain. See my story below:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,315432.0.html

 

[NGE]

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Back in 1990, I was at a friends property in McKinley Michigan, I was hunting his private property, when I came upon a wounded doe. It was not deer season! I told my friend, and he located a pile of apples and sugar beets nearby, and said that someone has been poaching on his property b4, but he could never catch them. So he called the local DNR office and they asked him if he had a gun to dispatch the doe, he said no! They were trying to entrap him, if he would of said yes, they would have arrested him. So, the DNR officer came out, and the doe had passed by the time he got there. He (DNR) officer said that they had picked up a couple guys coming out of the woods on someone else's property. They had loaded hunting rifles. So, he asked me if my detector could find a bullet in the carcass, I said sure thing! I fired up my Fisher 1266-X and had a go at it, I found the bullet, and he took it back to the office with him. A few days later they called my friend and told him that it matched one of the bullets that was fired from one of the poachers guns. Needless to say, them dudes were cooling their heals in the local jail, plus their vehicles and guns were confiscated, on top of a heavy fine..........NGE

 

[CowboyKolo]

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woulda really su**ed if you had cut a plug only to find a pulltab

 

[Nana40]

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He swallowed a nickel a few weeks back? Isn't that...how long does it....never mind...

Well...I rekin you did good, Neil. I hope it all works out for him.

Nana