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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Markian Hawryluk / The Bulletin
September 29, 2005
In 2003, poison control centers took more than 90,000 calls from parents whose children had swallowed a foreign object. The vast majority of those objects were coins.
A child who turns himself into a human piggy bank can cause parents much concern, but unless there are signs of distress,....