The Sunday Mail (Zimbabwe)

‘I don’t know my hubby’s name’

- Woman swallows engagement ring in her sleep

A California woman says she dreamt about swallowing her engagement ring to protect it during a heist on a high-speed train.

She later realised she actually did swallow her ring in her sleep.

Jenna Evans wrote about her ordeal in a Facebook post that went viral.

She explained she was having a vivid dream in which she and her fiancé, Bobby Howell, were in a “sketchy situation” involving a high-speed train and some “bad guys.”

“He told me I had to swallow my ring to protect it; so I popped that sucker off, put it in my mouth and swallowed it with a glass of water right about the time I realised what I was doing,” Evans said.

“I assumed this too was a dream, because who actually swallows their engagement ring? So I went back to sleep.”

“So, in case you missed it, I swallowed my engagement ring in my sleep on Tuesday night. I actually remember doing it . . .”

When she told Howell what happened, she thought he did not believe it right away.

“We laughed pretty hard for about an hour and a half, called my mom, laughed until we were crying, googled ‘do other adults swallow rings’ because kids do it all the time, but apparently it is less common for adults,” she said.

They took a trip to urgent care where Evans struggled to explain why she was there because she was “laughing/crying so hard.”

An X-ray confirmed the ring was sitting just beyond her stomach, in her intestines.

She says the doctor told her she would have to get a procedure to remove it, rather than waiting for it to pass through her system.

She went to a gastroente­rologist and described feeling some pain with the ring inside.

That is when she started to worry.

“At this point, I could definitely feel it in my guts, it was starting to really hurt and make us nervous.”

The doctors retrieved the ring during an upper endoscopy procedure and gave it to Howell, making for a happy ending.

“Bobby finally gave my ring back this morning — I promised not to swallow it again, we are still getting married and all is right in the world,” she said.

‘I don’t know my hubby’s name’

When it comes to names, some are certainly harder to pronounce than others, especially if they are from another language or culture.

One woman has recently confessed that even after several years of marriage, she still cannot correctly say her husband’s Swedish name.

So instead of learning, she has given up trying and has instead just been calling him “baby” for the last three years.

This was revealed in a TikTok video posted by the user @maybebrea, which has gone viral, being watched more than 13 million times on the social media platform.

In the video, the woman says: “Ok, so I have been calling my husband ‘baby’ for the last three years because I don’t know how to pronounce his Swedish name.”

She then gives the pronunciat­ion a go, saying: “It’s like raGNAR... RAGna... rAgNaR?”

More than two million people have liked the clip, with thousands sharing and commenting on it.

Many people were quick to share sympathy for the woman and also admit they found the whole situation hilarious.

One person replied: “PLSSS this is so funny.”

Another wrote: “I feel you sis. My husband’s first name is Kapuamamal­ukeakua.” A third commented: “OMG hahaha, this is so funny to me — a Norwegian.” “OMG me too. My husband is Swedish as well and we have been together seven years and I still can’t say his name right,” confessed someone else. Others suggested she make a video with her husband and ask him to introduce himself to her TikTok followers, so that way he has to say his name out loud for her to hear and she will have captured it on camera.

One woman has recently confessed that even after several years of marriage, she still cannot correctly say her husband’s Swedish name. So instead of learning, she has given up trying and has instead just been calling him “baby” for the last three years.

— Wires.

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