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Popcorn Anyone?

Posted by Maggie Mon, 07 May 2007 16:39:00 GMT

I’m on a blogging roll! Well my daughter is making it easy, and I have to write this one down before I forget all the joys of last night (it was Friday night, 5/4/07, I had to take a break from writing this one). So last night started out like a mostly typical night. The only differences is we babysitting 2 other little girls so we had 3 to watch over instead of just one. No biggie though, we know and love these girls and are happy to take them whenever we can. So we had dinner and a movie night, and of course movie night includes popcorn.

Well the movie wasn’t really holding their attention, the 2 other girls were looking at a book with me while I was laying on the couch, John was so wonderfully cleaning our bathroom, and Hannah…. well apparently she was sticking popcorn kernels up her nose! I didn’t notice this until she came and was trying to pick her nose and then complained when I told her to stop. So I told her to grab a Kleenex, thinking it was just an ordinary booger bugging her, but no… it was popcorn kernels! Notice the s? Yes, not just one, but two! One in each nostril. I yelled for John, we tried squeezing them out, but Hannah wouldn’t have it, then I briefly tried tweezers, but they were a little pointy and I was afraid of pushing them up further. John had just been cleaning and wasn’t dressed to go out so I grabbed her, put on my flip flops and ran out the door to go to Urgent Care.

I am so thankful for our Urgent Care office, they only see patients of the doctors in that group and they’re right around the corner. I am very thankful for them, except for last night. Hannah and I got there and I was starting to unbuckle her a very nice lady in the car next to me said she just went up and there’s a note on the door saying they’re having computer problems, so they’re closed and we need to go to the ER!

So to the ER we go. We sign in and are next to see the nurse. By this time I’m realizing that I didn’t put shoes on her, so I’m needing to carry her the whole time, not good on my back. We do get in to see the nurse fairly quickly, and she says we’re next for a room. So we go back to the waiting room. But while we were talking to nurse I feel my lap getting wet. I should’ve changed her Pull Up before leaving too. So I go and change her, at least I grabbed a Pull Up from the car. So now not only does she not have shoes on, but no pants either, because they’re wet.

2 hours later we make it into a room. Praise the Lord! We’re finally going to get to go home soon. Well not really, turns our the doctor is 3 hours behind on patients, so we get to wait in the room for 3 hours. By this time the girls have gone home and John has come to join me. I’m very grateful because Hannah has not been fazed one bit by the popcorn kernels and they seem to be making her hyper, but with no shoes on she needs to stay very contained, I needed a break. The doctor sees us a little bit before 1 am. He was looking for some nurses to help him with Hannah, decided not to wait and had us hold her down, less than a minute later the kernels were out and we were out the door. On the way home I was looking at the papers they gave us and on the home care sheet, number 3 was “teach your child not to put objects up his/her nose”. It made me laugh, I would think that would be obvious.

So I learned a few things from this, and if you’ve read this far, I thank you. :)

1. Popcorn bowl needs to be put away immediately after popcorn is finished. 2. Objects up the nose is not so urgent that you should not think through what to take with you. Especially if your child is not in pain, you will be low on the priority list at the ER. Shoes are a must, several diapers will be needed and possibly a book or small toy for your child to play with. 3. Popcorn kernels up the nose is a stimulant apparently and will make your child bounce off the walls, it will also make you forget all about your back problems, until the kernels are out, then child will fall asleep on Daddy and your entire body will ache.

Have a great day everyone and be sure to watch out for popcorn kernels up the nose! :)