Blaine's Battery

KIDS! What else can I say! Blaine found a watch type battery on the floor, unsure of what it was he brought it to me and asked if he could play with it. I told him no and that he needed to set it next to the TV. A few minutes later I see him playing with the battery and so I ask him again to put it next to the TV. Being that he is 4 years old I wasn't so worried that he had the battery I just didn't want it to get lost. Anyway a couple of minutes later I see he has something in his mouth, I am worried it is the battery so I tell him to spit whatever is in his mouth out. He starts to stand up and starts coughing then he swallows the battery. Great my kid just swallowed a battery. I call the Pediatrician to see what the portocol is for swallowed batteries. She is very animate that I take him in right away because it contains lythium. We hurry to the hospital and the ER doctors scares me when she tells me that if they can't reach it by going in through his mouth they will have to do an emergency surgery so they can get it out quickly. She then calls the doctor who would do the surgery. He says it isn't anything to worry about and to let it pass. Why the first doctor couldn't have told me that I don't know but it sure would have saved me a lot of anxiety (and cash). Anyway Blaine had a great time in the hospital they gave him this handmade teddy bear and he watched the Disney Channel the whole time. Not even one poke. On our way home he told me how much he liked going to the hospital and asked when we could go back. SCREAM!