The Trouble With Noses...

Is that if you fall face first on cement, it swells up to double it's size and gives you two black eyes. Oh yeah, and freaks your mommy out.

If you stick a hot pink bead up in it, it gets stuck. And your mommy freaks out.

So on Thursday evening, I'm sitting down scrapping while the kids sit across from me stringing beads on a string to make a necklace. The next thing I know, Cameron is telling me that Payton put a bead up her nose. And when I look up, she's looking kinda scared. So I proceed (calmly at this point) over to her where I start asking her if there was a bead up her nose and she tells me yes. So I look in and sure enough, hot pink bead. So I tell her not to touch it and run to get the aspirator. By the time I get back though, it's been either pushed or sucked up further into her nose. I can't really see it that well at this point. So I call Eric and start to get a little panicked. She's crying and I'm not sure what to do.

I try to get her to blow (as per the doctor on call). Well she's 3 and not a great nose blower. In fact she blows out of her mouth, not nose.

So Eric comes in and we go to the ER. The doctor comes in, looks in her nose and tells me "there is nothing in her nose that I can say is definitely a bead". Ok, I think, so what are we gonna do about the bead in my daughter's nose? He and the nurse are looking with the mirror deal and the nurse says that it looks like an inflammed mucus membrane. "Has she been sick lately?" Yes, did I mention that my daughter has a bead in her nose? So she shows me what they are seeing the "inflammed mucus membrane." That's the exact color of the bead I say. I think that's the bead. So the doc in all his knowledge looks to be getting a little annoyed and repeats "there is nothing that I can conclude is a bead in her nose. I pressed on what you saw and it's soft." At this point I'm almost in tears because a doctor is telling me that there is nothing there and I know better.

The nurse sees that I'm not too happy and says she's gonna call for a 3rd set of eyes (i.e. a second opinion) in which the doctor walked out. Probably p.o.'ed but who really cares, right? So a male nurse comes in and looks in her nose "wow it's way up there" he says immediately. Then proceeds to stick a little rubber tipped syringe in and flicks out the bead. I wanted to take it and go show the doctor. And say told you so, told you so. But I refrained.

So that my friends, is the trouble with noses.