Daisy Matthews is a 2-year-old FS Golden that presented for eating a glass plate. A plate was knocked off the counter that contained chicken, and then broke. She gobbled up the chicken with the glass pieces before the owner was able to pick up the food or the plate.
She was sent for esophagoscopy with Dr. Gibson to ensure her esophagus was not cut as she swallowed the broken glass. Surgery to remove the fragments was then recommended (the material could not be scoped out due to volume, as well as possible injury to the esophagus if it was removed back out with a scope). She went straight from her scope into surgery, where a gastrotomy was performed to remove all the chewed-up chicken pieces and chunks of white broken plate. The glass pieces were close to the size of her intestine, so we don’t know if they would have passed through her food without cutting through her intestines on the way out (if they weren’t removed during surgery). She recovered very well from surgery and was sent home the following day, eating well!