California woman who dreamt she was being robbed swallows diamond ring in her sleep to protect it from 'bad guys'
Jenna Evans, of San Diego, California, was sitting beside her fiance on a high-speed train on Tuesday, September 10, when some "bad guys" appeared out of nowhere. She immediately knew she had to protect her 2.4-carat diamond engagement ring. The easiest way to do that, she thought, was to swallow the ornament.
And that's exactly what Evans did, according to NBC News. "I popped that sucker off, put it in my mouth and swallowed it with a glass of water," Evans wrote on Facebook.
Evans woke up Wednesday morning to realize the entire episode had just been a bizarre dream that was "very James Bond", she told Today.
However, to her horror, she soon realized that her engagement ring was actually no longer on her finger.
With a history of sleepwalking, Evans thought she had swallowed her engagement ring in reality when the "bad guys" entered the train in her dream.
"When I woke up in the morning, there was no ring on my finger," Evans told Today. "I couldn't help but laugh at it, and then I had to wake my fiance up and tell him that I had swallowed my engagement ring."
When she googled if adults often swallow rings, she found children were more likely to do it.
Doctors at an urgent care clinic Evans went to decided they wouldn't let the ring pass through the 29-year-old's GI tract naturally, and so they referred her to a gastroenterologist, who promptly performed an upper endoscopy—inserting a small camera and device down her throat.
As she signed release forms for the procedure, Evans cried fearing she would die and not get to fulfill her lifelong dream of marrying Bobby Howell, her fiance. "I waited a long time for that damn engagement ring and I WILL marry Bobby Howell DAMNIT," Evans wrote.
The engagement ring was eventually found in Evans' intestines after it had passed her stomach. Evans described how she couldn't contain her happiness when her fiance returned the ring to her on Thursday.
"Bobby finally gave my ring back this morning—I promised not to swallow it again, we're still getting married and all is right in the world," she wrote.
Evans and Howell plan to get tie the holy knot in May of 2020. "I'm so grateful that everybody can laugh about it, because it truly is a very funny story," she said.