What’s With These Holes in Our Heads …
Not to steal her thu
nder, because I KNOW my daughter will have to blog about the peanut her 2 year old shoved into his nose today.
What really caught my attention and gave me a good laugh is one of her friend’s who responded to her blurb about it on Facebook. Her child shoved beans in their nose when he was little and she got them out by holding the other nostril shut and blowing in his mouth. The visual of that is priceless! Or, if that doesn’t work you might try one of these ideas … but you may just have to bite the bullet and get the child to the clinic!. I hadn’t realized that you must not let them lay on their back because it could dislodge and go into their lungs!
About forty-four years ago one of my nephews became very, very smelly. We’re talking gaggy smelly like you get when your throat is badly infected. My sister took him to the doctor and the doctor pulled out stinky bits of Kleenex he’d been poking up his little nose … for weeks, I suppose. Makes me gag just to remember! I mean the kid really stunk!
I believe it was this same nephew, but I can’t be sure, and heaven help me I will not mention his name now since he is a dignified man with an important job and the father of two fine boys, who later shoved a marble into his nostril. The marble was probably the hardest to remove. You put a marble in there with all that natural lubrication and it spins and spins around no matter how you approach it.
I don’t know what the fascination is with little holes in our heads but I recall the day my mother took my older brother Bill, to the doctor because he was losing his hearing. Come to find out, his ears were full of cotton, packed tightly out of sight in his ear canal around his ear drum.
Okay … now skip to another popular story in our family … my brother was maybe twenty-one and was serving a mission in New Zealand for our church. My brother challenged his companion, another young man in his early twenties, to put a pool ball into his mouth … and wh
ose mother’s son can pass up that kin d of dare? With just a little stretching and pushing the ball slid behind his teeth and settled into his mouth. The problem was … they couldn’t pry his mouth open wide enough to get it back out. I can only imagine how tired that poor fellow’s jaw was before they finally found someone who could get it out!
Why is it so enticing for some people to shove things into the holes in their heads?
I was camp director at a girls youth camp for my church. My middle daughter who was twelve at the time came to me complaining of something being stuck in her throat. I took her to the nurse and upon inspection the nurse found several splinters in her throat.
We were all scratching our heads wondering how that could of happened. My daughter said; “Do you think it could be from that wood I ate?” Now, we were all scratching our heads and looking at one another for answers. Turns out she and her friends were chopping some wood for the first time. The inside of the wood looked like “Chicken” to the group of twelve year old girls. A challenge pursued and my daughter “the camp director’s daughter” took the challenge. But, to swallow it? A question I still ask myself.
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That is so strange you’d write about this now, My little Nicholas just put a air soft bullet up his nose yesturday. Luckily I was able to have him blow his nose and get it out. lol Oh the things the kids will do!
Oh that is a good one! Only at Girl’s Camp! So did you have to get the slivers out or did they come out on their own. Ouch!
Lucky for everyone the nurse was able to get them out.
I don’t recall being the mother of the ‘stinky’ kid with kleenex in his nose – must have been another nephew – but I do have to admit to the kid that put a marble in his nose. Once in there it works just like a rolling deoderant bottle. Rolls and rolls so very easily – but won’t come out with out long tweezer like things under a doctor’s care. Ah those little holes in our heads LOL
Aunt Ann is right. The stinky kleenex kid belongs to your little brother. So not quite 44 years ago. More like 30ish years ago. I won’t name names – but he lives in Roy.
I have a friend who quite recently had to take her middle son (about 4) to the doctor because he smelled just foul. They found something up in his nose that was so moldy it was unidentifiable… ew!
So far we have been able to get the peas and Kix out of Cory’s nose by having him blow… and then warning him severely not to put things in there! We’ll see how long it lasts…