Well...today was a monday from hell...had lots of running around to do. I finally got our van registered (have been driving it for over a year unregistered and uninspected...amazing you can get away with that down here. I know people that have been arrested up north for that haah). I had finally made it to Walmart for some groceries...and my son calls:
"Olivia has something stuck in her nose!!!"
"What?" I hear her whining in the background....my nose, my nose!
"Are you sure it isn't a booger?"
"No way! Please come home!!' my poor son is very upset...probably more than Olivia (she is 3)
So I rush home, and sure enough, my little bugger has one of those plastic beads that feel off one of the older girls costume jewelry up her nose. Just up far enough where I cannot get it out.
Now, of course this stuff only happens when the kid hasn't had a bath yet, so she is a bit grubby. So I clean her up real quick, throw on cleaner clothes on her, and am putting on her shoes. This is where my 5 year old comes up and says, in her morbidly serious way: "They are going to have to cut her nose off to get it."
So, Olivia (who was pretty calm by now) starts screaming "Don't cut off my nose, Don't cut off my nose!" I tell her and Rebecca that won't happen, and so Rebecca says : "Well they will have to cut it open at least." More screaming by Olivia ensues.
I get her calmed down again, telling her they will use a tube to suck it out. She seems okay with that. Rebecca stands there fascinated and asks "Can I come with you?" Yeah, like THAT is going to happen after the stir she has created hahah.
So we get to hospital, Olivia is pretty calm, but is very quiet, talking in whispers. She brings a little flashligh (which she thinks the doctor needs to see the bead.) We make the nurses day. I know they have seen this a thousands times, but they do get a good chuckle out of it. One of the nurses comments that she likes my tshirt, which says :Who Are These Kids And Why Are They Calling Me Mom?"
I tell her I just bought it yesterday, and wore it for the first time today, We both agree God is punishing me for this shirt, hahah.
Anyhoo...we get to the room, and I take pictures with my cell phone to entertain Olivia. The doctor and nurse comes in, and the nurse and I hold her down while the doctor uses suction to get it out. Fortunately, she only had to try twice. The doctor, she holds up the bead, still stuck on the end of the suction tube, triunphantly and says "See Olivia, we got the bead out!" Olivia immidiately sits up, and says oh, the bead, and tries to take it. The doctor pulls back, and she, the nurse and I say all it once "Noooooooooo!"
Don't know how expense this will be yet, had to paid $75 at the discharge desk, but didn't have the current insurance cards. I know that is not the rest of my share...eeek!
I spoke with my husband about everything on the way home on the phone. He and I agree it is amazing this is the first trip to the ER with a foreign body situation, since we have five kids. I remind him it is only because we were able to get stuff out of Rebecca's nose when she was younger.
When my husband gets home...we ask Olivia is she will ever put a bead or anything else in her nose again. She says no. I told her, good, because putting a bead in your nose is Bad. She looks right at me and says...No it isn't bad...and she stands up straight, gets a huge smile on her face and looks me right in the eye and says: "It's funny!" And runs in the next room laughing.
God help me, hahah.