3-year-old swallows 37 magnets and survives

Source: KPTV

PORTLAND, A 3-year-old girl continues to recover in the hospital Friday after accidentally swallowing 37 high-powered rare earth Buckyball magnets.

At first her parents didn't know why 3-year-old Payton Bushnell was feeling so sick. They thought she just caught the stomach flu.

After her symptoms didn't get any better, they rushed her to the doctor. Eventually, doctors took an X-ray of her stomach, which quite possibly saved her life.

"They saw a circle had formed in her stomach, and they thought she swallowed a bracelet," said Payton's mother, Kelli Bushnell.

Once doctors tried to remove it from her stomach, they realized they were dealing with not just one, but 37 high-powered magnets. 

Doctors say the magnets snapped her intestines together and ripped three holes in her lower intestine and one in her stomach.

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