“The pain that I’ve seen my daughter go through, it’s horrific,' the mom said.
“She got an X-ray and you could see the magnetic beads inside,” Elizabeth told TODAY.The teen had her appendix and part of her bowel removed.“She’s got part of her bowel removed … it was like two segments of it, so they had to re-stitch it back,” Elizabeth explained. “They also found magnets inside her appendix, so they had to remove her appendix as well. She’s now left with just over a 6-inch scar down her stomach.
Elizabeth says her daughter did not swallow all 15 magnets at once, but accidentally ingested them on multiple occasions as she tried out the“The magnets are all trying to stick together, so you can imagine the pain going on in the inside, with them all trying to pull and stick together,” she said.