Abigail: Mommy, I shoved an eyeball up my nose.
Me: What?
Abigail: I put an eyeball in my nose?
Me: Did you really put something in your nose?
Abigail: Yes.
Me: What did you really put in your nose.
Abigail: A snowman eye.
Paul: There WAS a googley eye sitting on my desk.
Me (scanning desk): There isn't anymore?
So began our adventure. We spent the next hour or so trying to get her to blow the eyeball out and waiting for the on-call doctor to call us back. He finally called, and he told us to take Abigail to Redi-Med.
So while Paul watched the boys Abigail and I went to Redi-Med. First we waited. Then we checked in. Then we waited. Then the Nurse Practitioner took us back to the exam room "Why are you here?" Abigail replies, "I stuck an eyeball in my nose." Nurse asks confusedly "What kind of an eyeball?" Abigail says, "craft." I explained the situation. The nurse looked in Abigail's nose and asked Abigail to blow several times. No luck. Then she got out some funny looking forceps, called alligator forceps. She attempted to remove the eyeball, but all that happened was Abigail's nose started bleeding profusely. So she said she would go get the doctor. We waited. Abigail asked questions about everything. The doctor came and we explained the situation. He looked in Abigail's nose and asked her to blow. She tried. After several attempts at blowing and lots more blood he got out the alligator forceps and removed the eyeball. Then we were sent back to the waiting room to wait. It took a ridiculously long time for them to check us out.
Now, back at home Abigail is pretending to be a doctor and daddy is the patient with an object stuck in his nose.
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Abigail alternated between making we wait and pretending to extract the object with all manner of painful techniques.
Presumably, this is her current opinion of the medical industry.
Discussion Questions:
1) What is your opinion of the medical industry?
2) What is the weirdest thing that ever went up your nose?
I'll answer part two...kind of.
When my brother was three he went through a stage of sticking orange things up his nose. A carrot, an orrange tic tac, an orange Lucky Charms, etc. We found it odd at the time that he would only do this with orange things. Now that he's 16, his favorite color is orange. Go figure.
I'm hoping one incident will be enough
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