I can't believe I forgot to tell this story here. This actually happened almost two weeks ago. B, Z and I were baking some bread, and after I put it in the oven, I put the kids at the table and gave them a snack. B had fruit snacks. They're smaller than your average fruit snack, diamond-shaped and probably about 1/4" long on each side. Well, about two minutes into the snack, B suddenly started screaming hysterically.
I rushed over to see what was wrong. "I put a fwuit snack in my nose, and now it won't come out! Waaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!" I stifled my laughter, and laid him down on the floor. I shone a flashlight up his nose; no sign of a fruit snack. Then I did what our friend Michael said their pediatrician told them to do when their son stuck a bean up his nose (they didn't find out until his breath started to stink & they took him to the doctor to find out why): plug the nostril without the fruit snack in it, and blow in his mouth. I did this hoping a fruit snack would shoot out the other nostril, but no such luck. So I called the pediatrician.
As soon as the bread was out of the oven, we shuttled over to the pediatrician's office, just five minutes away. She looked up there with a light and didn't see anything. By this time I was beginning to doubt the existence of a fruit snack in his nose, but I kept mum. The pediatrician said it was better to be safe than sorry, and sent us upstairs to an ear, nose and throat specialist. He looked up B's nose with all sorts of fancy instruments, and reported that there was no fruit snack in that nose. After all that drama, it was too late to cook dinner, so we hit the OK Coyote for burritos and a nice big margarita for Mommy.
I must admit, when I was around his age (4), I once stuck a Kraft mac-n-cheese noodle up my nose, just to see what would happen. After a panicky few moments during which I realized it's hard to get a noodle out of your nose just by blowing (the air goes right through the tube!), I got it out without notifying the babysitter. I believe that was the last time I stuck anything up my nose. In fact, I'm pretty sure of it.
How about you? What did you put in your nose when you were little, and how did you get it out? Now remember, this is a family-friendly blog, so I don't want to hear about anything you might have put in your nose in your teens or twenties!
4 comments:
Haha! Nothing. I'm that rare person who never tried that particular trick (tempting as it apparently is to most toddlers). I don't look forward to finding out what Flynn might be tempted to put up there!
(I did swallow a couple things that aren't supposed to be ingested, however. Nothing that merited a doctor visit, apparently, though.)
yes...I did it, and I refuse to tell you when, what and how it was extracted...but I must say it is a sign of brilliance, perhaps skipped a grade or two but us common folk...but nasal exploration of the non booger kind is touted as highly meaningful and developmentally challenging.
enough bollocks...orafaces are holes just begging for stuff to be lodged in...
Yay Ben, you are one smart cookie!
I never got anything stuck in my nose, but used to and stil do shove thingsin it quite frequently. You see having chronic crap sinuses compells you to find the thing that will get the gunk out so you can breathe.. Oh and there was this one incident with me, my step dad and the tweezeres from the "ants in your pants" game.. that was painful and very very funny...
LOL!! So, what do you think really caused him to scream and think a fruit snack was in his nose??
I never stuck anything up my nose, but I did get curious about what would happen if I filled a cup with sand, stuck a straw in it, and sucked. I didn't like the answer!
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