Swallowed?

April 18th, 2026| Topic: RaMbLeS | 0

A TikToker in Mexico thought her cough that wouldn’t go away was just a reaction to the changing weather. It wasn’t.

Instead, it was her own nose ring, lodged deep within her lungs.

The 26-year-old, Monica Deyanira Cabrera Barajas, recently went viral on TikTok, amassing 4.7 million views after revealing the freak medical accident.

Deyanira, who has a large number of piercings, didn’t initially notice the jewelry was missing. It wasn’t until she developed a chronic cough lasting over a month that she went to see a doctor.

The only theory I have, which I told the pulmonologist, is that I fell asleep, the little ball fell out, and that was it. I was lying on my back, I didn’t realize that’s how I messed up, swallowing my nose ring.”

The good lady had to undergo 20-minute extraction that turned into a high-stakes medical procedure. During the initial attempt, surgeons were unable to budge the object because it had already begun attaching to her internal tissue. And, more importantly, …

The stray accessory sat a mere 0.5 millimeters from my aorta! So it ended up taking an hour and 20 minutes, and they still couldn’t remove it because it was attached to my body.”

If the metal had punctured her lung or heart, she likely would have died from a lung collapse or perforated aorta.

Facing a second, more invasive surgery and the risk of a fatal hemorrhage, Deyanira prepared for the worst, even writing a farewell letter to her loved ones the night before the surgery.

I was honestly thinking, ‘I’m going to die.’ It’s a horror I wouldn’t wish on anyone.”

After the ordeal, the Tik Tok-er said she’s permanently done with piercings.

A fellow Tik Tok-er commented:

Sometimes the Lord puts us on this earth to show others what not to do.”

Yeah, don’t swallow your nose ring!

Also, don’t be swallowed!

Let them not rejoice over me falsely—my enemies;
[or] those who hate me without cause wink the eye.
For they do not speak peace, but against the quiet in the land
deceitful words they devise.
They opened wide their mouth against me; they said, “Aha, aha, our eyes have seen.”
You have seen, Yahweh, do not be silent; my Lord, do not be far from me.
Stir up Yourself, and wake up to my justice, my God and my Lord, and to my cause.
Judge me, according to Your righteousness, Yahweh my God, and let them not rejoice over me.
Let them not say in their heart, “Aha, our desire.”
Let them not say, “We have swallowed him.”
Psalm 35:19–25

But these enemies, they will be swallowed:

Your hand finds out all Your enemies; Your right hand finds those who hate You.
You set them like a furnace of fire in the time of Your presence;
Yahweh swallows them in His wrath, and fire consumes them.
Psalm 21:8–9

And thus we escape the fate of being swallowed.

“Were it not Yahweh who was for us”—let Israel now say—
“Were it not Yahweh who was for us, when people rose up against us,
then alive—they would have swallowed us, when their anger burned at us;
then the waters—they would have swept us away; the stream would have gone over our soul;
then it would have gone over our soul, the raging waters.”
Blessed be Yahweh!
Our help is in the name of Yahweh,
the One who made the heavens and the earth.
Psalm 124:1–8

God, the enemy-swallower, will keep his people from being swallowed!

SOURCE: Fox News