![]() “The email said, ‘It’s possible there are two metallic objects, so we need you to get a lateral X-ray,'” says Diane, who works at home as a daycare provider. I think I actually ingested something and would really would like you to prescribe an X-ray.'” He had an X-ray taken that same day and the results were emailed back to him on Wednesday, Sept. “She suggested acid reflux medication, and I said, ‘No, I don’t think it’s that. “The doctor asked if I had passed any blood in my stool, and I said no,” he says. ![]() He went to a medical clinic on Tuesday to try and figure out what was causing the problem. ![]() The pain continued through the weekend, particularly when he ate anything, and it finally got so bad on Monday that Michael had to take time off work from Boeing, where he’s a software product manager. They were like a dull, deep pain in my abdomen.” He told his wife about the pain in his stomach and that he thought it might be related to the pizza, but “she thought it could just be my mind racing,” he says. I went upstairs and, soon after that, maybe an hour or so, I started feeling pains in my stomach. “At that point, I said, ‘I’m done with this pizza,’ and I tossed it in the garbage. “The bread did help, but my throat was still all scratched up and was still bothering me,” her husband remembers. Michael and Diane Norman with their family: Joseph, 22, Kaitlin, 20, Tyler, 18, and David, 12, and Kaitlin’s husband, Jacob Fritz, 22. “He was choking and gagging and clearly was in a lot of pain,” Diane says. It was really starting to scratch and tear at my throat.” He quickly drank some juice and some water and then ate a piece of bread to see if that would help. I thought maybe a hard piece of the Canadian bacon or the crust. Once I swallowed, I started grasping at my throat and I didn’t know what it was. “I took the first bite, chewed it, didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary, and I swallowed. “I threw a couple pieces on my plate, sat down and proceeded to eat,” he recalls. It was our normal Friday night order.” However, this particular Pizza Friday turned out to be anything but normal. “She came home with Canadian bacon and pineapple, mushroom and cheese, and one pepperoni and half cheese. 19, 2014), she elected to pick up some pizza from Domino’s Pizza (in Milton, WA),” says Michael, 50. Diane, 48, would alternate picking up pizzas from different restaurants near their home south of Seattle, and she and her husband, their three sons, and their daughter and son-in-law would share them. For the Michael and Diane Norman family of Auburn, WA, a weekly tradition has been Pizza Friday.
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