A 26 year old woman in Mexico discovered that the cause of her persistent month long cough was her own nose ring lodged deep inside her lung. Monica Deyanira Cabrera Barajas believes the small ball on her nose ring came loose while she was sleeping on her back and she accidentally inhaled it without realizing. Doctors found the metal piece sitting just 0.5 millimeters from her aorta. What was expected to be a routine 20 minute extraction turned into a far more complex procedure after surgeons discovered the piercing had already begun attaching to her internal tissue. She ultimately needed a second surgery to remove it, and the night before the operation, she wrote a farewell letter to her loved ones out of fear she wouldn’t survive. The ordeal has since gone viral on , where her video racked up 4.7 million views. Barajas says she’s done with septum piercings for good, and ended her video with a simple message to her followers: remember to take your piercings out before going to sleep #reelheadline #pubity #viral