• Jul. 12, 2008
The things kids come up with!

Tonight my sweet, darling firstborn daughter decided she didn't want to hear the television, which, in fairness to her, Daddy did have turned up pretty loud.  So she stuffed paper in her ears.  Wet paper.  Stuffed in her ears.  Now I don't mean she stuck paper in the outer part of her ears.  She stuffed her entire ear canals.  No wonder she couldn't hear me calling her name!  Of course I didn't realize how deep it was until I tried to get it out.

I used a hairpin to try to get the paper out.  I got most of it, but I couldn't reach the last bits in each ear.   I'm pretty sure they were resting against her eardrums, and I wasn't going to reach in there blindly.  So we tried peroxide.  Thought that might loosen it up, because of the bubbles.  Ummm, nope.  Okay, so we tried calling people we thought might know whether this was an emergency-room situation, or something that could wait for Monday.  I tried to call my mom, but nobody answered at home, and she didn't answer her cell.  She was probably at work.  She was my first choice, because she raised seven children, and I'm sure some of us put stuff in our ears at some point.  Then I tried calling my neighbor Courtney, but she wasn't home, and I don't have her cell number.  So Jeremy called his aunt, Wanda, who had been a nurse once upon a time.  After a few minutes of chatting, it was decided that Theresa was heading to the emergency room for the first time in her life.  But I wanted to try one more thing.  I thought if she took a bath, the water might loosen up the paper and make it come out.  Yeah, that didn't work any better than the peroxide.  But at least she's clean now! 

So Jeremy and Theresa left a few minutes ago.  Fortunately we live about two minutes from the hospital.  Of course, knowing how emergency rooms are, and realizing that they are probably busier than usual, since it is Saturday night, they might be there for hours.

I've always thought Grace was the most difficult child, but Theresa has to learn things the hard way.  She may prove to be the bigger challenge.  On the bright side, though, she has a very good imagination!  She sorta reminds me of Anne.  Anne Shirley, that is.  Anne of Green Gables.  Minus the red hair, of course.

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• Jul. 16, 2008
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Posted by Rebekah

How did it turn out?

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• Oct. 18, 2008
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Posted by Anonymous

This summer, I had to take our youngest to the ER to get foam rubber out of his nose. Kids!

Who would think she could stuff paper in her ears THAT far? I'm glad she didn't do permanent damage. :-)

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