The Culprits
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Nasal Object Extraction 101
Today consisted of school lessons, girl-cousins visiting, a bead pulled from a terrific two year old's nose, more picture fun with my cam wow app & lots of giggles resulting from said fun with cam wow app. Those were just the highlights, of course. Yes. A bead. I am an expert bead-from-nose-extractor, didn't you know? Isaac came to me and started yelling at me hysterically, to "take it OUT, Mama! Take it OUT!!!" He was so anxious to have it removed, I thought that just maybe he might hold still while I worked on him. HAHAHA! Oh, sorry. When the holding still thing didn't work, I swaddled him in his old baby blankie, with his arms pinned down. I had Seth hold down his legs, to prevent thrashing & avoid nasal injuries. His scream changed to, "Leddeee down, Mama! Leddeee DOWN!!!" I used a pimple popper to extract the bead. Hey, don't knock it! It has that nice small, curved, NON-SHARP, tip.....unlike big, bulky, sharp tweezers, which tend to push an object further into the nostril. I was able to get gently behind the bead & push it forward and out in under 10 seconds!!! I am just that good. Isaac giggled happily about his vacant nostril....... then promptly yelled at me to, "Give it back, Mama!!! Give it BACK." I did not. Other stuff happened today too. Feeding kids. Comforting kids. Settling kids' fights. Practicing for a gig on Friday. I'm singing lead in the 2nd set. Aaaack! Excited! Scared. Mostly excited. And scared. Feeding kids. Comforting kids. Settling fights. Yup. That's it. Oh. And poorly constructed blog sentence fragments. The usual.
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Our Mac had a photobooth program that did that... Genny used to sit in front of it, with her friend April, for HOURS...
Glad you got the bead out so easy. When my daughter was about three she stuck a pretty red polished rock in her nose and tried to get it out with a pencil pushing it into her sinuses where it couldn't even be seen. I called the doctor's office, and hearing her screaming from the pain in the background, they said "Don't bring her here take her to the ER." One bonus was if you bring a screaming child to the ER you do get seen instantly. Thankfully they got it out without any lasting trama to her sinuses and she never did that again. We kept the rock, which we now call the "$350 rock". At least your bead was free!
Busy Day! What pro on the bead extraction. You should put an ad in the paper- I bet you'd get some emergency calls!
Oh my! A bead?
Hahahaha I love the pictures.
Believe it or not, we have never had to do a nasal extraction! But we removed a pebble (pea gravel) from my oldest's ear when he was about 9. He admitted that it had been there since he was FIVE!! He had stuck it in his ear while on the playground at daycare and was afraid to tell anyone because he thought he would have to have surgery. lol Of course, now we get to tease him about having rocks in his head. ;)
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