Put 2 and 2 together...

Something for you wannabe Sherlock Holmes out there -

Last night, gorged myself thoroughly at a potluck dinner. Ate and ate until I started having trouble breathing. While burning off 3 calories/hour during a round of taboo, I started getting those quiet rumblings in the stomach. The ones that make you nervous when you're in a group setting...when I got home it was like 2 gnomes having a boxing match in my stomach. BAD. I think my forehead had beads of sweat while I was going up the stairs to my apartment. Anyways, I'll leave the rest of the story up to your imaginations. No need to go into any details.

Later that night, I'm flossing. Flossing has become a tedious nightmare since getting these braces. I need to loop the floss through each bracket and then remove and loop again. It's just plain annoying. I almost want to skip the flossing altogether but then I floss some food out from between my teeth the refreshing feeling that its out is just hard to beat. :) I'm flossing, flossing, flossing...get to the back of my left side when I notice - the last bracket is missing and the wire is just sitting out out loose, nothing holding it down. What the. I lost a bracket and didn't even notice?!

Have you guys put the 2 stories together? I can't think of any other conclusion cept that I must have swallowed that metal bracket during dinner --> stomach pains.

Has to be! No one else got sick from dinner (or did they? speak up please).

Dude. How embarrassing. I have to call my orthodontist now for an emergency replacement. Which means an afternoon sitting amongst the pre-teen kiddies watching the Scooby Doo movie because my 3x year old self ate a stupid brace. I mean seriously, who does that?!