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On 15 May, Facebook user Kelly Rose Joniec posted an account of her daughter's hospitalization two days earlier, after accidentally swallowing part of a fidget spinner (an enormously popular children's toy): A spokesperson for the Texas Children's Hospital confirmed to us that the basic story is true, and that the image of an x-ray showing the object lodged in the girl's esophagus is authentic. Kelly Rose Joniec's daughter Britton was indeed taken to the Texas Children's Hospital at The Woodlands, near Houston, on Saturday 13 May, and did indeed successfully undergo surgery to remove part of a fidget spinner from her esophagus. However, it's important to note that this incident was not the result of a property or mechanism intrinsic to the fidget spinner itself. Based on Kelly Rose Joniec's account, it appears that her daughter Britton separated out a part of the toy, and accidentally swallowed it after putting it in her mouth to clean it. The incident does not appear to have happened while the girl was playing with the fidget spinner. Patty Davis, a spokesperson for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, told us that parents should be aware that choking is a hazard with any small toy:
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