This is the precise instant when the odd happens. The child’s parents, who are left alone in the room, see what seems to be a stick protruding from their daughter’s face. They chose to take her to their pediatrician because the doctor had not taken any action.
On a subsequent visit, the latter took the odd thing out of the girl’s cheek, which turned out to be a 2-inch (about 5-centimeter) black feather.
The doctors’ only reasonable explanation for the foreign body in Mya’s cheek was that the child had swallowed or inhaled the feather, which had been lodged between her neck and jaw for a longer period of time before being expelled from her body.
During the several interviews that were later made public, Emma, Mya Whittington’s mother, actually said that she had a feather pillow that she chose to discard after the incident.
Thankfully, this odd incident did not have any serious repercussions. Instead of treating the swelled spot, the physicians chose to let it heal naturally.
