$Mommy, there\'s paper in my nose$

Written on October 07 2007, and filed under General

That is exactly what Alyssa said to me on Saturday night, while pointing to her right nostril. She had come out of our bedroom, where I thought she was sleeping, to tell me this. My mom, who was at our house at the time (still is, actually; she was too tired to drive home, so she crashed on our sofa), laughed and was like, “Yeah right!”. Yeah, right. I believed Alyssa, since she has no reason to lie, and up to this point never has lied (does she even grasp the concept of lying?). So I grabbed a flashlight and tilted her head back. At first I didn’t see anything, but after demonstrating to Alyssa how one can blow really hard through their nose, and asking her to do the same, I was able to see a white colored obstruction.

I grabbed tweezers, washed them, had my mother hold Alyssa’s head still and point the flash light up her nose, and carefully extracted a rather large wad of paper (seen here; nothing too gross except a snotty wad of paper, hence why I did not include the picture in this entry!). “Much better, thank you!”, Alyssa praised me, and then skipped off, as if shoving a wad of paper up her nose and then having me remove it was nothing out of the ordinary.

Now one of my books is missing part of its preview. But I suppose it – and I – will survive.

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, on October 07 2007 at 4:26am:

lol It amazes me what kids put up their nose.

, on October 07 2007 at 4:56am:

“Mommy, there’s paper in my nose”. Alyssa is awesome xD

Once my cousin got a raisin stuck in his nose :B And you know what happens when you soak raisins in water . . ? Yeah, talk about nasty @@

, on October 07 2007 at 8:18am:

shoot. I read the page. Now I want to read it.
-stays away from romance books-

I used to stay up all night and go through 3 or 4 a day.

^_^

, on October 07 2007 at 8:18am:

My niece stuck an acorn up her nose one autumn. She had to go to the hospital to get it extracted. Not fun!

, on October 07 2007 at 10:39am:

LMAO! Oh that’s classic!

When we first got Sydney she had a hair band on that had little jewels on it. Somehow she extracted a jewel and put it in her ear. We fished it out with tweezers before it could get to the point of hospital extraction. Not fun so I don’t envy your nose extraction.

My cousin once shoved one of those fat crayons in his nose and had to go to the ER, he was at kindergarten when it happened. Kudos to that teacher.

, on October 07 2007 at 10:50am:

That story cracks me up. It’s just so classic! I once knew a kid that got a shoelace up his nose somehow. It’s amazing how they get these ideas into their heads. lol

, on October 07 2007 at 11:44am:

LOL that is crazy! But then not too crazy for me.

When I was little, my cousin was showing me a candy trick where he put a smartie up his nose and it came out of his mouth. Me being a kid, didn’t notice he in fact didn’t put it in his nose, but instead in his mouth. So of course I take the smartie and shoved it up my nose. LOL! …. then it had to be removed by my father. hahaha

, on October 07 2007 at 1:33pm:

Wow! At least you were able to get it out.

, on October 07 2007 at 2:25pm:

Tina I’m sitting here laughing at your story because I have a mental picture of about 50% of kids that do that type of thing fishing the candy out and then eating it. Ahh, to be a kid and not care about snot and germs.

, on October 07 2007 at 4:41pm:

LMFAO!! That was funny. It’s better then the crusty booger I peeled off the inside of my sons nose. Poor little guy. But haha poor Alyssa.

, on October 07 2007 at 5:09pm:

I have this mental image of this young boy (probably around 6 at the time) at the library where I volunteered one summer and he had been all excited and he had a bag of jelly beans.. He stuck two up his nose and then walked around like that breathing through his mouth and had them up high enough that I didn’t see them and he ended up forgetting them until there were blue streaks coming out of his nose.. Yeah, that was loads of fun…

I love how carefree kids can be about things like that.

, on October 07 2007 at 5:45pm:

ha ha, it is amazing where kids find places to put things in.

, on October 07 2007 at 7:36pm:

Wow, it surprising that you were able to get it out…since you couldn’t even see it at first! My mom stuck a bead up her nose when she was little, and had to go to the hospital for it. I never stuck anything in mine (that I remember anyways ).

, on October 07 2007 at 8:41pm:

haha! oh man. I have yet to experience that. Can’t wait for that!! She sounds so cute! I remember once my sister stuck a pebble up her nose. and we couldn’t get it out. She fell asleep and woke up and it was on the couch where she was asleep. lol kids!

, on October 07 2007 at 8:45pm:

haha, that’s very… interesting. Reminds me of when I was in 1st grade and got one of those small erasers stuck up my nose and I got sent home from school so my grandma could get it out. I laugh whenever I think about it.

, on October 07 2007 at 9:27pm:

LOL… my ex-boyfriend’s little brother used to stick paper & stuff in his EARS!

, on October 07 2007 at 10:53pm:

Lol, that’s hilarious…reminds me of the days when my brother and I would do weird things like that as kids (plus eating gross things like grass and making “mud pies”).

, on October 07 2007 at 10:55pm:

Kids are so amusing sometimes. I always see kids with a finger up their nose!

, on October 08 2007 at 11:16am:

Awww! That’s cute but icky haha. I shoved cotton wool up my nose once.. I started panicing and had to get my mum to get it out.. Was a scary day haha…

, on October 08 2007 at 4:07pm:

That exact same thing happened (thought she was sleeping, etc.) to my youngest, except that it was a bead – the downfall to having another child over the age of 6 is small parts like that.

I couldn’t get it out myself so I brought her to the clinic where they did x-rays and said to keep checking her bowels for a few days. Then I had to bring her to an ENT specialist so that they could shove a tiny camera up her nose

The bead was NEVER FOUND! I bet she blew it out in the car on the way to the clinic and never told me, haha!

, on October 08 2007 at 6:41pm:

We had to take our youngest…yes, the VERY one that just got engaged, to the hospital when she was about four to have a roasted peanut removed from her nose! The Dr asked if he could keep it and add it to his collection of things he’d taken from children’s ears and noses. We of course complied. LOL! Thanks for stopping by today!

, on October 08 2007 at 8:01pm:

ahah! That’s cute, but the picture was kind of gross, not surprisingly though, haha. I’ve never stuffed anything up my nose before, probably because I was too afraid I would die from it.