Jennings: The Peanut Incident

Ugh.

Remember how I mentioned that Grace had a new obsession with her nose?

Yeah...that obsession cost us $450 bucks back in February.

It started out with a trip to visit my parents.

We rode with Mary to save on gas money and the girls just loved playing and giggling in the back.

We had an awesome time all day.

In fact...let's take a look at how cute and adorable Grace is doing 'tricks' on the stool at Gram and Mack's house.

Then....disaster struck.

Dun, dun, DUN!!!!

We had hurried the kids in the car without a 'real' dinner and planned to stop on the way home. That ended up being...'let's feed them whatever snacks we have in our purse".

Crackers, cranberries, etc...then I found a little bag of trail mix in my bag. Never again will I look at trail mix in the same way.

All girls fell asleep on the way home...except for my little hooligan.

Then, out of nowhere, Grace starts crying and carrying on. She says something about her nose, and keeps pointing at it and saying, "OUCH".

I kept asking her if she put something in there, but she kept denying it.

But, we were on the interstate, and I couldn't really do anything for her at the moment, so she just had to cry. In fact...she cried for about 10 minutes and then fell asleep.

While she slept, I had a little freak out moment with my sister as to what I would do if she did in fact stick something up her nose. We kept thinking, "Well, we can prob just use our fingers to push it out...or in worse case senario, we can try to use some tweezers."

We get to my sister's house to pick up my car, and her husband came out with a flashlight. (we had called him and asked him to do this)

I shined it into my sleeping daughter's nose...and discovered that she had shoved a trailmix size peanut up so high in her nose, that it was halfway in her sinus cavity. I honestly have no idea how she even got it that high. There was no possible way to get it out myself. Since it was after 8pm...my only option was ER. *sigh*

So, I called my husband, in tears as I have a screaming daughter in the backseat and ask him to meet me at the ER.

I will not lie and say that I was the most wonderful and patient mother at this point. I was beyond tired from the days activities, and then THIS happened! I was so frustrated with her and mad at myself for giving her that stinkin' trail mix!

She just sat in my lap and cried. And we discussed how peanuts do NOT go in your nose or any other hole EXCEPT for your mouth.

Seriously so. much. snot.

Getting all the vitals/info.

Once all the preliminary insurance, tests, questions were done, they sent us to a second waiting room.

After waiting for over an hour, Grace started sneezing.

And sneezing...

And then, the peanut got shoved low enough were I quickly put my fingers on the bridge or her nose, and yanked down to get that peanut out.

Seriously...how did she get that peanut in there?

By this point, I'm relieved that it is out, but we've already given them all our info, so I knew we were already getting charged for the ER visit, so we just stayed to make sure that was the only peanut.

And, the 'mean mama' in me wanted to make sure it was a little on the traumatic side for Grace, so she would not do it again! Ok, not traumatic, but she needed to know that it was not ok. The Dr came and laid her out on a table and looked in there. Everything was clear, but he said that if it was still there, they have to use this 'vacuum' thing to suck it out.

Why no, Grace...I am not amused.