Bean Stuck A Bead Up Her Nose

Yes! As if life couldn't get more bizarre?!?

So much for cabin fever. We got out of the house so that I could take Bean to the emergency room to try and get a very pretty pink bead out of her nose. She wedged it up there so well that the nurses couldn't dislodge it. I had to call my friend from up the road (37 weeks pregnant, no less) to come and watch Bibby and Bel while I borrowed their car (because Po is away for the day with the van) and zoomed Bean up to the clinic. (Thanks Dee and Scott!) We finally get back home, I make some Kraft Dinner for supper...still trying to figure out how to get this bead out of her nose. If 3 nurses couldn't get it out, how was I going to? I tried pepper to get her to sneeze it out, no luck. I tried to get her to just blow her nose, again no luck! Do you know how hard it is to try to teach a 2 year old how to blow their nose? She just kept breathing in really hard and then blowing out her mouth! I even tried to get her to blow a candle out with her nose. This worked only while she was actually blowing the candle out. But as soon as I took the candle away she went right back to blowing out her mouth!!! A little frustrating to say the least.

All the books and the nurses hotlines said to not try to remove "the foreign object" myself, but I was pretty darned determined that I didn't want to take her all the way to the hospital in the big city an hour away, to wait in emergency for 20 hours, only to have been able to do it myself. When Po got home, and after I got a pep talk from my Mom that yes indeed I could get the bead out myself, we grabbed some really fine tweezers, Po held her down and I reached in and grabbed it out (on the 3rd try!!) Yippee...I think I missed my calling as a surgeon. It reminded me of that hilarious scene from House where House takes a bunch of things out of a kids nose, only to realize the child had sent a whole toy rescue party after a small toy cat...it's really funny!