A Massachusetts resident woke up in the morning with a feeling of discomfort in his chest, and when he got to the emergency room the doctors were shocked to find out why • "I tried to drink a glass of water they just did not go down. I had to lean back to let them spill into the sink"
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Sleeping with wireless headphones? You might want to pay attention to the following story:
Bradford Gutierrez of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts has been searching for a long time for one of his Airpods headphones in the bedroom - and found it inside his esophagus.
The story began on Monday last week, after two hours in which Gutierre rolled the snow at the entrance to his home.
He got into bed, put the wireless headphones in his ear - and fell asleep listening to music.
In a post he posted on Facebook he wrote: "I got up in the morning fine, but when I tried to drink a glass of water they just did not come down. I had to lean back to let them spill into the sink."
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"I felt a chest discomfort, but I assumed my throat was dry from the weather and work outside last night," Guttierez explained.
His family even joked with him that he might have "swallowed her headphones" - something that became a reality when he went to the local clinic and did an X-ray.
The earpiece was removed from the throat during an emergency endoscopy procedure, at the end of which he returned home.
"The doctor said it was very rare for such a blockage to not hurt. Watch out at night when you hear music with your wireless headphones when you fall asleep, you never know where they will go," Guttierez added.
In case you were wondering, the headset he swallowed still works great, but with a slight decrease in volume.
