So, today, I get a message from the school that went like this, "We have Kennedi in the office. Somehow she managed to get a bead stuck in her nose. She's pretty upset. Could you please call us back." Great! We've been through this before - Dallin in 2009, only it was a popcorn kernel, and cost a trip to the ER! $1,100.00 later, learned an expensive lesson: don't listen to overzealous nurses that assure you that you need to take your child to the ER!
Talie was picking up the kiddos from school, so I call her and she is sitting in the parking lot. I ask her to go in to be with Kennedi until I can get there. I pull in 10 minutes later with Tanner. We scurry into the office where we find Talie, Peyton & Kennedi. Kennedi, now is calm, but has big red eyes; evidence of an earlier melt down. I pull her into a hug and ask, "Were you in art or in your class? How did you get the bead up your nose?"
To which she replies, "I saw a bead on my desk, and then it got stuck up my nose." Hmmm, her story is missing a few important details. The 6 of us are all sitting on little cushion topped crates lined up against the wall outside of the principle's office. Then I turn to Peyton and ask, "Well, how was your day?"
He said,"it was good at first."
To which I have to interrogate,"It was good until what?"
"Until Ian told Mrs. Cooper that I bit him."
"What? Well, did you bite him?"
To which he replies, "I don't know." ??????
So, we don't know how a bead magically ends up a nose nor if we bit somebody!
Luckily Talie was there to laugh with me!
So that night, after watching Ashlynn's volleyball team win, I race home and call the nurse, at Kaiser, to see what she suggests. She is very helpful, and first asks me to plug Kennedis right nostril, have her hold her breath, and blow into her mouth (aka mouth to mouth) - poor Kennedi! After four times of no success, we decided that that is more than enough tries! The nurse then recommends unbending a paperclip and trying to carefully wiggle the bead to see if we can unstick it. Ashy runs upstairs to Dad's office, finds a paperclip, and runs it down to me. We lay Kennedi on the counter, unbend the paperclip, and after two tries, walla: a surprisingly large, clear, sparkly and wet bead pops out of her nose!! Costing a mere 3cents. 1cent for the bent paperclip - which we could bend back and reuse - nah! and 2 cents for the ziploc baggie that we had to save the evidence in. I would call that success!
