Saint fan's heart in her throat
By David K. Li
The Saints didn't choke -- and neither did one of their biggest fans after accidentally swallowing an earring shaped like the team's logo.
New Orleans resident Florellen Rickard had a piece of fleur de lis jewelry stuck in her throat last week before ER doctors pushed it out of harm's way. She wore the earrings on Sunday.
"They're my lucky earrings and I wore them yesterday!" a beaming Rickard told The Post yesterday, still giddy about New Orleans' 31-17 upset victory over the Colts on Sunday in Super Bowl XLIV.
Every night, Rickard, 42, puts her Saints earrings in her jewelry box and takes six vitamins and supplements kept on her nightstand.
But last Monday, Rickard put her Saints earrings on the nightstand -- and in the dark, she blindly went for her vitamins and water.
"I swallowed and something really hurt -- then I looked down and saw one fleur de lis, " said Rickard, a Saints season-ticket holder. "I thought, 'Uh-oh.' "
ER doctors pushed the quarter-sized earring out of her throat and into her esophagus. Then doctors pumped her stomach to recover the jewelry.
By Sunday night, she and hubby Daniel Rickard were at a neighborhood party, noshing on crawfish and jambalaya, whooping it up for the Saints.
"She has a little sore throat, but she's OK," said Daniel Rickard, 53.
When doctors spotted the earring in X-rays, they broke out in laughter, easing the couple's worries.
" 'She's a Saints fan inside and out!' " she quoted her ER doctors as saying.
*****ARTICLE TAKEN FROM THE NEW YORK POST*****
No comments:
Post a Comment