nursebeeme
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nurse jumping in here... I have seen all kinds of objects swallowed and shoved into any part of the body in the ER.Sheesh, I've never heard of anyone swallowing any type of blades.
If they were the regular size x-actos, I don't know how she swallowed the blades.
You would think they would get hung in her throat.
This is my take on these blades. It was reported as a confirmation (so just going with that) of her "suicide attempt". IIrc, she or her father in that raw interview said that Melissa went to the hospital in the middle of the night for stomach pain and I can kind of see it (moo of course) unfolding this way:
Melissa eats the blades for attention (I mean come on there are a lot of ways to kill yourself and that way is not only slow...but also not certain.. by the time she is writhing in pain from the sharps doing damage she can still be saved. I think her choice of "tool" speaks loudly!). She puts them in a food so she can swallow them without cutting her mouth. She never went to sleep that night... waits until her grandparents are asleep than wakes them up to tell them she needs to go to the hospital because of her horrible stomache pain. Once at the ER she spills the beans or the beans are spilled on her when they do a flat plate of the abdomen (xray) and she has to come clean. They do a scope and pull blades out (no surgery..) and keep her the required 72 hours (that is how long she was there).
The only person who said the word "internal bleeding" was Melissa. And I think that is what she wanted the blades to result in... to take focus off of her and her family and for attention.
just moo of course:twocents: