And no, I am not talking about anything dirty.
At least, not today.
Tonight, Amy was happily eating her dinner while I sat in front of her (in a death defying stunt, risking thrown food and a plate to the head) in the beanbag, reading.
She started to whine.
‘Nose Mummy! Nose!’
I got up (I’m well trained) grabbed a tissue and had her blow her nose. Happiness reigned, at least for 2 minutes.
Until she started again.
‘Nose! Mummy, nose hurts!’
I thought about it. I hoped that it was just a cold, but I suspected otherwise. You see, Amy had been sitting behind me eating the last of her dinner. A dinner that had peas in it.
You see where this is going, don’t you.
I picked her up and promptly tipped her upside down so I could see inside her nose. Sure enough, there it was. A bright green pea, wedged into her tiny nasal cavity.
I sat her upright (just in case the forces of gravity could possibly pull the pea into her brain, just by me thinking about it) and grabbed a tissue.
Wheedling and coercing her, I got her to blow her nose. No luck getting rid of the pea, but she did hand me a good deal of snot from the other nostril.
Cue the crying. Her, not me.
‘Hurts! hurtshurtshurts!’
By this stage, Nathan was sitting next to us, using his awesome powers of Daddy to try and get the pea out as Amy used her toddler powers of nose picking to shove the pea in deeper.
[IE: he was trying to get her to blow her nose while she was showing her fingers up there instead]
I rang Mum to find out if we, as children, had ever stuck anything up our noses. No luck.
I rang the doctor (on Mum’s suggestion) to see what he had to say.
He suggested tweezers to mush the pea. Luckily the pea in question was a cooked pea and therefore mushable. His reasoning was if I mushed it, she would either sneeze it out, or sniff it back [ewww].
Which was exactly what Nathan had suggested to me before I made any phone calls. Kudos to Nathan for having brains while a crisis was happening. Me? I just wanted to laugh in disbelief.
Amy was laid back on Nathans chest and he held her arms and head [nicely of course]. I prepped my tweezers by making sure I had the blunt pair in my hands and squeezing them in the hope that they would fit in her nose.
I shone a torch up her nose and she relaxed back into Daddy.
And thank fuck, but the pea was easily removed with tweezers and Amy didn’t even wiggle. I was dreading any poking I might have to do to turn a pea into mush. Not to mention the pea snot that I was likely to get covered in.
So now I say to Amy.
Baby? Some things are only meant to be exit holes. Your nose is one of these things.
That was hilarious! And, trust me, someday you and Amy will laugh your heads off over it! My little brother used to shove peas, paper, whatever would fit up his nose. He had bright carrot red hair and those bright green peas were hilarious looking sticking out of his nose – the paper and other things were a bit more tricky and tweezers and the threat of the hospital always got them out! Thanks for the memories, I had nearly forgotten about those days! (I am nearly 13 yrs older than he is, and those nose issues were mine to deal with)
That reminds me of our own stuff up the nose story……. Hmmm. I should blog it! 😛
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OMG. I am so glad that the pea was cooked and the crisis averted. Too funny.
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There are some things I just can’t do. This has been one of them. I do, after all, have boundaries. I do, really. Well. I DO!!
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LMAO
Oh gawd!
Just watch out for the beanbag beans – Feral Beast managed to shove one right down into his ear and it took a gazillion doctors, a truckload of sedation and the longest tweezers mankind had ever made to get that bugger out.
Too funny. At least it was pees. At work Ive delt with beads and leggos. Funny but scary
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See, these are the things nobody tells you before hand. And it’s a good thing, because if they did? Nobody would have babies.
Went through something similar with a jelly bean. She said she wanted to see how her nose tasted it differently.
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Yes. Thank goodness it didn’t require a trip to the doctor’s office for extraction! The sad part is that in a few weeks she’ll have forgotten the incident and will try it again.
Like dogs and porcupines.
Hehehe oh my word, that gave me a great giggle! I don’t know how we’ve managed to avoid the getting-stuff-stuck-up-the-nose thing with Zack, but I’m guessing Max will make up for it… 😉
Very funny.
So basically Dad was right all along…?
the REVOLUTION is near…
happy to hear you got the pea out..
i remember when my sister was young she shoved a sultana up her nose..
how are you?
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OMG, I was wondering what Amy shoved up her ‘exit hole’ Thankfully it was only her nose.
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oh no! Thats funny but also really scary!
ROTFLOL That has happened to us – but with the cotton tip of a swab. She wasn’t complaining, but I saw this huge cottony thing up her nose whist she was swinging one day. It took tweezers to pull it out, and I think it hurt her, b/c she cried AFTERWARDS LOL
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that is too funny (after the fact of course). i probably would have just thrown her into the car and let the hospital deal with it. kuddos to you!
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Laughing so hard right now. My stepson stuffed a small silk flower up his nose last year. Why do kids do that? What about it seems like a good year? My father is a paramedic and has no end to the list of things kids shove up their noses. How weird.
Glad it came out though.
PS. Love the subject line. It really made me wonder if I wanted to read further… 😉
oh boy … sorry Veronica, that was too funny. My middle child stuck orange play clay up his nose. I couldn’t figure out why he had orange snot.
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Girl, I am totally telling Moo that. But EVERYTHING is an exit hole. Now that she has an 18 year old boyfriend WITH A CAR!
Oh and kudos to Nathan, dude is a star for thinking of it first.
What is it about two-year-olds and noses?? the one time in her life that K listened to her big brother was the day he told her to put a pea in her nose. Two years earlier the boy himself shoved bits of bread up one nostril. The bread swelled alarmingly so thank goodness it WAS only one nostril. Both times involved a twenty minute walk to the nearest doctor. (hubby was away, playing soldiers)
Oh, my goodness, Veronica, bless you! Poor baby girl. I had heard of one girl who put a bean there, and they grow in dark places like noses… iw!
I hope the bruising is minimal.
((hugs))
Kudos to you for getting that out!!! Yuck!!!
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Oh, wait until she swallows a plum pit. For the record, it will pass.
I can’t believe we’ve never had a pea up the nose in our house.
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I dread a scenario like this. I am glad it turned out well.
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I have to giggle, only because I’ve been there. Julia was a pro at sticking veggies up her nose. I’m glad it came out okay.
Oh my goodness!! You must have been so scared! As a kid, I shoved a hard candy up my nose once. I was very frightened. So glad it turned out ok.
Btw- congrats on being brave enought to sit down!
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Maddy stuck a bingo ball up her nose when she was little.
We took her to A&E where they made a bigger mess. Finally, we tooke her to an ENT doctor and he got a little scoopy utensil and out it popped. maddy proclaimed her undying love for that doctor for about three years afterwards, at which point she started to deny the incident ever occured but that is what mother’s are for. Mother’s never forget and choose to remind their daughters of such happenings at inappropriate times! Mwahahahahahahahaha! I love being the mummy.
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