Consider this my public service announcement

Dennis had a little incident back in December that he was too embarrassed to talk about, until now.

He figures (or rather I do, and he agrees) that with Valentine's Day coming up it might be good to give this warning. 

Last December 14th, Den and I were at Brock's book launching party. 

There was quite a beautiful spread of desserts. 

But Den thought these looked the best....

So he took one of these cupcakes, and ate it. 

Problem is, he didn't notice that he also ate the un-eatable decoration (a tiny replica of Brock's book) on the top of it. 

About 15 minutes later he said he could feel something stuck in his esophagus. I asked him what he ate. He said, "Just one of those cupcakes." 

I looked them over and asked, "What did you do with the little book decoration on top of yours?" 

He said, "Was I suppose to take that off first?"

Oh no. 

After we got home, about 8:30 that evening, he called Kaiser. 

The nurse he spoke to made an appt for him to talk to a Dr Chin by phone at 9pm.  We LOVE Kaiser. It's a Friday night and we get to talk to a doctor in 30 minutes.

Dr Chin called right on time and the first thing he said to Den after he answered was, 

"So, I heard you ate a cupcake." 

After asking Den several questions, the doctor requested, "Have your wife watch your breathing all night and if anything changes have her bring you to ER." 

So I stayed up most of the night while Den slept peacefully. 

Next morning Dennis was still uncomfortable so he went to see his Primary care doctor, and was sent from there to Fresno Kaiser to have a scope put down his esophagus. 

Findings: nothing but a scraped esophagus.

All this trouble over a cupcake. 

Later that evening we went to the store to get a few things and decided to take a look at the cupcakes.

I think those little black hats on the snowmen 

would really hurt going down. 

So much plastic decor on top...

especially around the holidays. 

Most people don't eat the decor, 

but there's always that one person. 

And Brock's book....you can read about it out here!