The large monitor on the wall blinked to life.

“Those aren’t natural formations in her digestive tract.”

I looked at the black and white image glowing on the screen.

Inside the ghostly outline of my daughter’s stomach and intestines sat a cluster of solid white circles.

They were perfectly round.

I counted twelve in one loop of bowel.

Another clump sat higher up, near her stomach.

“Are those coins?” I asked.