Camera card slipped into CD slot

My wife was about to look at some pics on our Mac and she reached to put the camera card in the card reader but was a little off and it slipped into the CD slot. What can we do to get it out?  Service call from Apple or is there an easy way to get the iMac opened up and the memory card saved.  Please help!

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