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I was picking some gunk off this stuffed animal that my sister got me for my birthday some years ago and it left a tiny hole. It’s a stretchy polyester. Can I safely embroider a little heart over it? I don’t want to ruin it any further but i also fear if i leave it alone it’ll become a problem down the line.

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A calcified fetus, or lithopedion, is a rare condition where a fetus dies in an abdominal pregnancy and becomes encased in calcium to prevent infection. It often remains undetected for decades, found incidentally via X-ray or CT scans. Symptoms may include abdominal pain, but many cases are asymptomatic. Treatment involves surgery if symptomatic; otherwise, it may be left in place.

A lithopedion is caused by an ectopic pregnancy, specifically an abdominal one. When a fetus implants outside the uterus, typically in the abdominal cavity, and dies, the body may encase it in calcium to prevent infection, forming a lithopedion. This rare condition, affecting about 0.0054% of pregnancies, is consistently linked to abdominal ectopic pregnancies in medical literature, with no other known causes.

My pool used to reflect the areas around it quite nicely. I’ve put a lot of time and money into fixing this thing. The guys (they are the best guys) I had working on it assured me it would be the perfect shade of American flag blue. It’s now turning an unsettling shade of Chernobyl green. What should I do?