After Chris Carpenter had surgery to remove one of his right ribs, he decided to bring a souvenir back for his little girl — his right rib bone.

His  7-year-old daughter Ava asked him to bring back a souvenir from his hospital stay, and the dad took the request quite literally.

“My daughter asked me to bring something back from the hospital and she said ‘your rib’,” Carpenter explained to FOX. “So I brought my rib back. Fortunately the doctor gave it to me and allowed me to take it home.”

“(The rib) is actually in one of my cabinets in my bathroom,” he also adds. “I’m still trying to figure out what we’re going to do with it. It’s probably smelling really good. It’s in a jar with some of that solution. It was pretty gross, actually. I’m sure we’ll do something with it … Make a necklace or bracelets or something. We haven’t figured that out yet.”

Check out the interview below!