A little child had surgery to have a plastic toy that had been stuck in his throat for up to five years removed.
Eight-year-old Marley Enjakovic from Adelaide inhaled the small flower some years ago, which left him with a persistent cough and respiratory problems.
Doctors found the item caught in his airway after many wrong diagnoses and increasing symptoms.
In December, Marley’s cough was so terrible that he was having trouble breathing. He was sent to the hospital almost away.
After being taken to the ICU, doctors found and removed a plastic flower from an arts and crafts project that was caught in his neck.
On Tuesday morning from Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital, the kid with very few words talked to Sunrise before undergoing surgery to restore his airway.
He said “nothing” when asked how it felt to have the piece of plastic lodged in his neck.
In the beginning, Marley would cough when he was eating, but as time went on, he would cough for “hours upon hours,” and his mother Skye said it was “becoming worrisome.”
It came to the point that Marley was having trouble breathing during weekend basketball and football games.
Although his mother claims she thought it was more serious since the coughing was also provoked by food and drink, she was informed that he had asthma.
Skye said she was astonished yet relieved when the item was eventually found.
I was really stunned. but also really relieved because after all these years, I finally received a response, she said.
The fact that he had that problem from birth was my primary worry at the moment.
Since he would have had additional problems if he had been born with it. I felt a little sense of comfort when I realised it was caused by a foreign body.
“My advice to other parents is to keep pressing the issue if you believe there to be a problem.
“I am so happy I did because it means I have him now,” she said.