[DiamondSmiles]

I found a video here, but, I could not pull just the video or embed it. If anyone else can, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks to gata for posting it a few comments below this post. If it won't play here, hers will for sure! I think I got it, but, I never know!

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No one knew what was bothering 7-month-old Mya Whittington. Her discomfort stumped her parents and doctors. She was finally hospitalized — and a 2-inch feather eventually poked its way out of her neck, shocking everyone.

“We were just pretty much in disbelief,” Mya’s dad, Aaron Whittington, 26, told ABCNews.com.

The mystery of Mya’s pain started on Saturday.

“I was at work and my wife noticed that the left side of her neck had started to swell, and she called me at work and asked if we should take her to the emergency room,” Whittington said.

The couple decided to wait, thinking that Mya just had a swollen gland. They changed their minds the next morning.

“Sunday morning, when we woke up, it had doubled in size and there was a pimple-looking thing on the end of it,” he said. “We’re looking at it and going, ‘There’s no way this is a swollen gland.’”

Mya was admitted to a hospital near the family’s home in Hutchinson, Kansas. Doctors thought she had a staph infection of her lymph nodes. But when they tried to drain the bump, nothing came out. Hours later, Aaron Whittington and his wife Emma noticed what appeared to be a, “half-inch string”, protruding from Mya’s face.

“[The pediatrician] threw on gloves and she pulled out a 2-inch feather and she’s like, ‘It’s a feather.’ And we’re like, ‘What do you mean it’s a feather?’ And she showed us,” Whittington said, still in disbelief.

“As far as how the feather got into the side of the neck, our doctor says we’ll probably never really know,” he said. “But her best guess is that she either inhaled it or tried swallowing it and it got lodged in the throat somewhere, and the body, just being crazy, just started to reject it and force it out the side of her neck.”

The parents now remember Mya crying and puling at the area under her left ear over the past few weeks, but they thought she might be getting an ear infection or teething.

The little girl is now, “almost 100 percent recovered,” according to Whittington. Doctors have checked her out and determined that she will not need surgery. They say her body will heal on its own.

The Whittingtons say they are grateful for Mya’s health and have been shocked that the story has gone global.

“We’ve been extremely, extremely surprised,” Aaron Whittington said. “We’ve gotten stories in Kenya, India, the U.K. It’s really crazy.”

Photo courtesy of Whittingham Family.

[LadyCPlum]

What the????? File this under one of the freakiest thing I've ever seen!

[DiamondSmiles]

If that was my baby, I'd want to know how that feather got there!

I certainly wouldn't have waited for several weeks to get her checked!

If she had swallowed it, which sounds feasible, she could have choked to death!

It is freaky! So is drawing that stupid blue line around it! Stupid parents!

[gatagato]

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[DiamondSmiles]

Thanks, gata! I think I got it now, too!

Isn't that crazy though?

I heard a whistle noise in the few seconds it took me to walk about twenty feet away from my great nephew one day and he had a piece of dried grass in his mouth.

I pulled it out, of course! They have a dog and that is how quick babies are!

His parents think I over-react when he falls, but, I think it's better to run to him then wait to see if he gets up. I do scream though! They think I should laugh and tell him he's alright.

He'll be 2 in January, but, it's like a reflex action to me

[gatagato]

My nephew once got a piece of a spike like this one
into his auditory canal: no one noticed it until the bastard "walked" inside and reached the tympanic membrane: he started loosing equilibrium and feeling strong pain, but couldn't say from where the pain came from. My bro was desperate. Good for him the doctor realized that there was something wrong with his ear, because there was the risk that the spike could break the membrane and walk even more inside. Go figure the consequences

[DiamondSmiles]

At least your brother had a smart doctor who figured out right away it was something with his ear. How old was your nephew at the time?

I thought it was a bug you were talking about! Eek! I'd tape my ears if I ever had a bug in my ear!

My nephew may have had a stem of a weed like that, but, all I know is I heard a weird whistling noise and he was trying to swallow it. Scared the Hell out of me!

Happy endings for all of us, thank goodness!

[Pyramid_Head]

That's really cool how she was okay.

[Sharon]

Thanks goodness it found it's way out of her and didn't cause any lasting damage!

[LadyCPlum]

This also reminds me of an article I read once of a man who went into a coughing/sneezing fit and sneezed out a BULLET. This happened in the late 90's, the guy had been shot during World War II!