A Conversation with Maddie

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I sometimes wonder what goes through a little boys mind.  I have managed to not have to go to the ER with Joshua for 5.5 years.  Well, until today that is.

He had just gotten home from school, Maddie wasn't even up from her nap yet.  He ran into the "lego room" (better known as a dining room) to start constructing something wonderful, I'm sure.  Not 2 minutes later, I hear him screaming and crying.  I run in there, and he looks at me with terror in his eyes and says "There's a lego stuck in my nose!"

So I ask what color the lego was.  His response was "glass." This lets me know it was a clear lego, and thus very difficult to see up one's nostrils.  I looked up his nose (while he was screaming, and I have had a migraine all day today), and I couldn't see it.  I tried having him blow his nose, hoping the offending lego would fly out, but no such luck.

So I run upstairs to grab Maddie, who is now awake from the screaming, out of her crib.  We all pile into the car, and I go to my friend Lisa's house to drop off Maddie.  I call Ben to let him know that he has to leave work and get Maddie (Lisa had to take her kids to soccer).

Josh and I make it to the ER, and of course, everyone has had an emergency that night.  We wait about 2 hours before we get back to the room.  I think the doctor must have gone into emergency medicine for the exciting traumas, because he did not look thrilled to be participating in the lego extraction.  Luckily, the lego had not gone too far up in his nose.  They took this little tube, which had a balloon on the end of it, and shoved it up his nose.  They inflated the balloon, and out shot the clear, blue lego.

I feel he has learned his lesson.  We came home, he had some tylenol (by this time he had a headache and was tired), and he barely ate dinner.  The whole extraction process took at most 2 minutes. And what was Josh's response after it was removed? "MOM! I can smell again!!!"