We got home finally, and M went right back to sleeping through the night again. Which was wonderful. Until this morning, when she woke up at 4:30am. *sigh* She got a shot on Friday, and it never fails to screw with her sleep. >_<
She's been snotty since yesterday...not a rare occurrence when we drag her across the country and back. At one point late in the morning, I wiped her nose for the millionth time and saw blood-streaked slime. Lovely. She has a recent fascination with those little holes on her face called nostrils lately, so I figured the little digger had irritated it and pretty well shrugged it off. She takes a nap around 9:30am (yes, ridiculous.).. She wakes up; I decide to take a quick shower before we head to run errands; she wants to jump in with me, so I let her. Of course the steam has all of this mucous loosened up and running down her face, so after she's done playing in the tub, I decide now would be a good time to suction her out really well. Well, after successfully getting some goop out of one side, I go to the other and the ball won't re-inflate after inserting it into her nose. "Hm...she can't possibly be THAT congested," I think to myself. So I take a peek into her little, TINY nose and see WAY up there - she has jammed a piece of FLIP FLOP* up there!! I mean way up there - I wouldn't even consider this still "nostril"...
*Back story: she's always raiding my flip flops, so one day months ago, I gave her one that was still in packaging, never been worn. For awhile, she chewed on it innocently, and left my shoes alone. She just discovered she can now bite chunks out of said flip flop. This morning I caught her with pieces of shoe and took them all away from her immediately. Or so I thought! As soon as I saw orange up there, I knew exactly what my little stinker had done.
Well, I did try to get it with the nasal aspirator a few more times, and then became horrified that I would shove it up further and it'd go into her lungs, etc, etc (insert normal, horrifying, worse-case scenarios that only a mother could think up here). So off to the pediatric urgent care we go.
We waited (my mom and I) for HOURS....active 19 month old in tow. Finally get back to the pediatrician on duty, who comes back with a team of nurses, (one with the idea, I believe, the others just wanting to watch the technique). They had me cover her mouth (to seal it - keep in mind, she's SCREAMING/WAILING...not from pain, but because she was horrified), while they stuck a tube blowing air (from the wall) up the clear nostril, pushing the foam out of the other nostril. It was too large to go flying out, but it pushed it out enough that they could easily grab it with forceps. Kind of neat - I never would've thought of it.
Here's a nice pic of what my daughter thought looked like good nose candy:
In case you were wondering, the dime is just for comparison - they did not remove that as well. And if you know anything about how teeny, TINY my daughter's nose is...then you understand that that is a HUGE piece of flip flop!!
I love my daughter to the moon and back...but this kid is coming up with some very creative ways to make me gray faster!
Wow! Little M certainly does keep you on your toes. Glad it was not to serious though, and that they were able to get it out relatively easily.
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