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(CNN) - Jenna Evans was having one of those dreams that feel too real.
San Diego's wife and her fiance, Bobby Howell, were "in a very vague situation that involved a high-speed train and bad guys," Evans wrote in a Facebook post.
“(Bobby) told me that I had to swallow the ring to protect it; so I took it off, put it in my mouth and swallowed it with a glass of water, ”Evans wrote.
Evans woke up on Wednesday morning and found that his engagement ring was gone. While Agent 007's movie-like scene was a dream, it turns out that Evans really swallowed his engagement ring, a story he detailed in the now viral post that has been shared more than 57,000 times on Facebook.
"We laugh a lot for about an hour and a half, I called my mother, we laughed to tears, we googled 'other adults swallow rings' because children do it all the time, but apparently it is less common for adults" , Evans wrote.
She and Howell then went to the emergency room, where they had to explain to several doctors what happened.
"The doctor ordered an x-ray and seemed quite surprised when she came back with a second doctor and showed me that, indeed, my ring was right in my stomach!" Evans wrote. "I could definitely feel it in my gut, it was starting to hurt a lot and it made us nervous."
The doctors decided that letting the ring out of Evans naturally was not the best option, something for which she is grateful. Evans told CNG affiliate KGTV that he didn't know if he could still appreciate the ring in the same way, having let nature take its course.
Evans finally underwent an upper endoscopy, a procedure in which a doctor uses a flexible tube with a camera to see the lining of the gastrointestinal tract, according to the National Institutes of Health.
"Everything went well, they found my ring just beyond my stomach in my intestines, they recovered it and gave it to Bobby, not me," Evans wrote.
Howell returned the ring to Evans on Thursday, he wrote, and she promised not to swallow it again. The woman told KGTV that she started taking it off at night.
"We're still getting married and everything is fine," Evans wrote.
KGTV reported that the couple plans to marry in Texas, Evans' home state, next May. The couple did not respond to a request for comments from CNN.
Shawn Nottingham and Artemis Moshtaghian of CNN contributed to this report.
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