one of my first graders stuck an eraser up...

[Aurora63]

...his nose today. It got stuck.

Our school's counselor was in at the time, so she took him into the hall. Luckily they were able to remove it, no hospital required.

I couldn't believe it! BTW, it was a pencil eraser that had come off the pencil. Nice and small.

I'll have to teach a lesson titled, "Keep things out of your nose...and mouth...and etc."

Isn't it nuts what kids will do?!

 

[Hercules10]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwww

I bet right before he did it he said: "Hey ya'll, watch what I can do!"

 

[Bob Slydell]

Whew -- I'm glad you said "his nose"!!

 

[Toby'sFriend]

oh yes, believe me it is so much fun to call into work and tell them

"I'll be there as soon as the Doctor finds a way to get the crayon out of my kid's nose."

 

[Pixiedust34]

My ds stuck a vitamin pill up his nose when he was a toddler. It was WAY up there. Of course it was during a weekend, so we couldn't take him to our pediatrician. We called a doctor, and he said that it would dissolve. And dissolve it did! He had quite the purple discharge for a while.

About a year later, he pulled the same trick with a few Rice Krispies.

It is amazing what a kid will stick up his nose! I'm glad the eraser was removed OK!

 

[Sparx]

I stuck a piece of watermelon rind up my nose once. And a pea, too. I think it was the same day. we had to go to the hospital for the watermelon. I was really little though.

 

[taeja71]

Your posting about my youngest dd. I caught her wadding up small pieces of tissue and she started to shove a ball up her nose. I told her, "stop!, it'll get stuck, I know b/c I did it when I was little". She just looked at me and threw the tissues away.

 

[Cass]

My sister put a dried pea in her ear and a few weeks later my mom spotted this little leaf coming out of her ear, I guess the warmth made it start to sprout

 

[Aurora63]

Whew -- I'm glad you said "his nose"!!

Yes, that is good...not somewhere else...or someone else's nose!

 

[Maude4Disney]

That would be my DS... stuck a fruit snack up his nose. Took him to the Dr., but it had started to dissolve. He sent us to an Ear, Nose, Throat specialist just to make sure he didn't get an infection from it. Every now and then he'll tell me "no fruit snacks in my nose mommy... just my finger" ewww!

 

[hydster]

Our former neighbor's dd who was TWELVE took one of those flashing light magnetic pins and put the magnet inside her nostril and had the flashing light on the side of her nose. Her friend said something funny and she took a deep breath in and the magnetic part of the light went up her nose. She didn't tell her parents for a few days when she was getting really sick from it. They took her to an ENT who had to make a small incision in the side of her nose to get to the magnet and get it out. We all said DUH to her afterwards.

Edited for a stupid spelling error that bugged me

 

[noseybuddy]

My nephew stuck a lego up his nose. My sister had to take him to the emergency room to get it out. The things kids will do.

 

[Bearvet]

DS put a small rock in his nose when he was in kindergarten. It was during rest time and they take their shoes off. He saw the small rock in his shoe and put it in his nose! The nurse couldn't get it out, so DH went to get him and managed to get it out before we had to go to the Dr. DS then tried to blame it on a 2nd grader - we found it hard to believe an older child would force something up someone else's nose during recess.....

I couldn't get too mad at him though - I stuck a play lipstick up my nose when I was 4 - and did have to go to the Dr.!!

A college friend of mine is an audiologist - one case was a boy with severe hearing loss in 1 ear. He had put his mother's hard contact lens in his ear and it formed a perfect seal!

 

[Emme]

My sister put a dried pea in her ear and a few weeks later my mom spotted this little leaf coming out of her ear, I guess the warmth made it start to sprout

Oh my that is hysterical . Seriously, can you imagine what that would of looked like. "Honey what's that green leafy thing coming out of your ear?" "Oh nothing mom, just a pea I planted."

Thanks for the giggle! I hope she was fine though!!

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

I'm almost 48 and occasionally still hear the story about when I stuck the orange top of the Elmer's glue bottle up my nose when I was little. No need to remind me tho...I remember it well, and it wasn't pleasant.

What a riot about the sprouting pea!

 

[chager]

Had a 5th grader stick an eraser in his nose in the middle of math class a few years ago. Not sure how they resolved it since I wasn't subbing there the following day

 

[msdznyduck]

When my oldest DS was in preschool, he put day-glo pink playdoh up his nose. When I picked him up, he had pink watery ....... coming out. He just said very matter-of-factly..........."It's playdoh, mom. I put it there so no one else could play with it" eeeeeeewwwww, like someone would want it

A few months later, another boy stuck a dried bean up his nose, and it sprouted up there.....warm, moist, etc...

 

[TinkerBess_SnowTori]

I wish I could remember more details - but there was a two year old at the child care center I worked at who stuck bread up his nose -- way, way, way up - didn't tell anyone about it or complain (no one was sure if it happened at home or at the center) but he got a terrible infection from the mold that grew on the bread -- I remember the mother saying the doctor couldn't believe how much bread was up there - and how badly it smelled

 

[experiment626mom]

My sister put a pearl up MY nose when I was a toddler. She denies it to this day, but the rest of the family is convinced she did it.

 

[ReneeA]

I just had my 2 y.o. DD to the emergency room 2 months ago for sticking a button in her nose. It was so far up that nobody could see it, but my 4 y.o. DS INSISTED that she stuck one up there. Whenever I asked her where it went, she would answer, "It's in my nose!"

Went to the ER, waited to see a doctor, they strapped her down and looked in there, and sure enough...the button WAY far up...right by her eye. They dug around in there with a tool that looked like needle nose pliers, made her bleed like crazy, and couldn't get it out. Told me I had to wait until the ENT specialist got out of surgery in a couple hours and he may have to do surgery to get it out.

Needless to say, she was screaming and crying after being strapped down and poked at like that, I was upset too, obviously. We both sat there crying and she created enough lube with all of the snot from crying that the button flew out on it's own.

We left, and then got the bill from the ER. We had to pay $100 ER co-pay, and our insurance company had to pay $460. I would have pinched her at home to make her cry if I had known all it would take was a little snot.


ReneeA