What is it about small crevices that is so enticing to little kids? The smallest gap will tempt a child to drop a toy, paper, or DVD within its confines. When they tear down the walls in the loft of our old Shaker Heights home, someone will find a hoard of goods from the time we spent there. It then should not be surprising that a nose nostril would be so alluring to a three-year-old. Yet, you have to wonder, why? Why would you stick something up there?
Chloe came to us crying. There was something in her nose and she was not happy about it. Ryan got out his otoscope for a better view. Barely visible in the back of her nose he could just make out the shape of a yellow polly pocket shoe. Why do those things come with shoes anyway? They don't stay on their feet and are lost within moments of the package being opened. It's a wonder Chloe even found one in the first place.
After we tried all we could do, we called on the services of a pediatric ENT who was able to extract and return the shoe. On the drive home, a traumatized Chloe clutched her plastic baggie containing the small yellow shoe as if it were a prize from a gumball machine.
It was a lesson learned, and it seems that more often than not, lessons are learned the hard way. Chloe tells us she will not be sticking anything else up her nose. She has learned the painful consequences. Unfortunately, those consequences were not passed on to her twin and Hadley now has a dolphin nose up hers!
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oh my gosh! this happened to us 2 years ago with little james but since we could not understand what he was telling us at the time, we didn't realize there was a polly pocket shoe up his nose. when he originally told us we thought he was saying "atchoo!" like "my nose goes atchoo!" so TWO days later he coughs & sneezes really hard at the same time & out comes a beautiful pink polly pocket SHOE! oh! that's what he was telling us. i'm glad it all worked out.:)
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