Never give an almost three year old gum. Especially gum shaped in a tiny ball. That can fit in her nose. Ugh.
And know BEFORE the trip to the emergency room that the gum will eventually desolve in the nostril and slip out her nose without any intervention at all. Ever been laughed at in the emergency room?
Ah...well...um...
yeah.
Posted by Jody at September 8, 2005 09:25 PM | TrackBackThere's a visual for ya!
Could have been worse. Could have been Pop Rocks.
Is the little one OK?
Posted by: William Teach at September 8, 2005 09:37 PMchildren *really* should come with an instruction manual
Posted by: jane at September 8, 2005 09:38 PMTook my VCR in for repairs and they began pulling out matchbook cars.
Posted by: Nickie Goomba at September 8, 2005 09:56 PMI think it's a sign of intelligence, brilliance even. Really. And I'm not saying that just because I did the same thing at about the same age. Only with peas, english peas, which I hate and refused to eat but I wasn't allowed to leave the table until I cleaned my plate. They had to go somewhere.
Posted by: Janette at September 8, 2005 09:57 PMPoor baby....and poooorrrrr Mommy!
Posted by: Tammy at September 8, 2005 10:05 PMSomething stuck up the nose?
Think Black and Decker...
Posted by: Jeff H at September 8, 2005 10:47 PMHey, thanks for passing along the info! I'm sure it will come in handy some time in the future.
Think of it this way -- at least it dissolves! When my daughter was two, she stuck hair beads up her nose -- like 6 or 7 of them. One of them I couldn't get out and it kept disappearing up towards her sinuses (it also happened to be an identical color match of the lining of her nose. How convenient!) So we were off to the e/r and not only were we laughed at (initially), we also got the last laugh when it took four fully grown adults to hold down a thrashing two-year-old with the strength of Hercules. :)
Posted by: jae at September 9, 2005 05:00 PMWell, indeed, the incident is scary making while it happens.
But it gives you a great story you can torture her over when she's 16 and bringing home a boyfriend for the first time.
heheheh!
Posted by: Darleen at September 9, 2005 05:33 PMI don't think I ever stuck anything up my nose. I wasn't interesting like that.
Posted by: Nettie at September 9, 2005 09:51 PMNot even your finger on occasion, Netts?
Posted by: Jeff H at September 9, 2005 10:42 PMThe stuff memories are made of, love it!!
Posted by: Stacy at September 13, 2005 02:02 PM