Raisin Up the Nose

So I had a lovely three hours in Primary Children’s ER last night. At around 7:30-8, Brooklyn came downstairs and told me she had a raisin in her nose. I went upstairs to check it out and Bailey told me she had one in her nose as well. I took Bailey and started to look at her nose with the flashlight and I thought I could see it, but wasn’t sure with her squirming around. I took her in her room, so I could set her up on her changing table and have access to the bulb syringe. Tabatha and Brooklyn at this point were jumping on the bed. Brooklyn came over and handed me a raisin and told me hers came out of her nose. I then proceeded with trying to get Bailey’s out. I used tweezers, the bulb syringe, I tried to get her to blow her nose (she just kept sniffing), I covered her mouth and blew into the nostril without the raisin in it, I also tried to plug the un-raisined nostril and blow into her mouth. Nothing worked! After much debate with Cody, on the phone at work, I decided to take her to the ER. There was no way I was taking all three girls to the ER by myself. So I called my visiting teacher, thank God for Noell, she came over and stayed with Tabatha and Brooklyn. So we were off to the ER.

We arrived at 9:45 and were asked to put a mask on, because everyone has the swine flew, I was so excited for that. I hate hospital ER rooms! Now have you ever tried to get your three year old to wear a mask, ya doesn’t work so well. Later on I asked her if we should take a picture with her, with the mask on and show Dada, she said lets show it to Noell, so we put her mask on and took a picture and from that point on she left it on. If I ever tried to pull my mask down she would put it back up for me and tell me to keep my mask on.

So we waited for two hours and were finally put back in a room. A nurse came in and took Bailey’s vitals. Then the Doctor came in and used a scope to make sure the raisin was still there. Because Bailey was saying that it popped out, probably because she was scared at the options the doctor was telling me. He told me it was pretty deep in there. He then went to go get the ENT doctor to come look at her nose. Another person came in and took our information, charged me my $100 co-pay and then we were still waiting for the other doctor to come in. While we were waiting Bailey learned how to blow her nose and blew it out. Wonderful, my luck! I am glad they didn’t have to do anything to her, but I just paid $100 and have sat her for how long. The other doctor came in and scoped her nose to make sure. She said it was inflamed and to keep an eye on it, in case there was something still hiding. If it became stinky or pussy to bring her back in. We signed a discharge paper and left.

Cody called as I was leaving and yelled at me for not asking for my co-pay back. I told him they were not going to give that back to me. I took up space in there hospital, a couple doctors looked at her and I signed a financial sheet when I walked in. When I got home at 1:30am Cody informed me that he called and left a message with the administrative office about getting out co-pay back. I doubt that will happen, but I guess it can’t hurt to try.

Brooklyn's Adventure

So it all happened last Friday. I was at work on the Supervisor line, so not at my normal desk, where Cody can reach me. Thomas a co-worker of mine kept hearing my phone ringing over and over again. He called the number back to find out it was my husband. Thomas came and told me that I needed to call my husband right away. I called Cody and got this story.

Cody sets an alarm to wake up in the morning, when Tabatha gets up for school. His alarm had not gone off and Tabatha did not wake him up. Tabatha, Brooklyn and Bailey all share a bedroom, so when Tabatha gets up for school it is inevitable that she does not wake the girls up. Tabatha also has a chore to feed the dog in the morning and she gets the girls pop-tarts. At 8:30ish she is off to school, which is on street away from our house. At 9:05, on Cody’s alarm clock, which is fast, Bailey came up and woke up Cody and told him she couldn’t find Brooklyn. Cody got up, came downstairs to the front door wide open, the dogs were gone and Brooklyn was gone. He ran around our little townhome community to see if he could find her there. She was no where, but some guy seemed to mention that he had seen our dogs by our pool. Cody didn’t care about the dogs at that moment of course. He came back home and dogs came wandering in behind him. He put Bailey in the Tahoe and called 911. The police asked him some questions and they already had Brooklyn in their custody.

I am glad she hadn’t been hurt and she was found. Brooklyn is very independent and she is a DIVA. If she wants something she will find a way. She is also very friendly and will talk to anyone. Tabatha is supposed to lock the door in the morning when she leaves for school. This day she didn’t do that. She also is supposed to wake Cody up, if he is not already awake. Tabatha and I had a talk that day. I told her the story and then asked her what she could do, so that wouldn’t happen again. She gave me all the right answers, good girl.

The police said they had to report it to CPS because of her age. The Officer told Cody that she didn’t think anything would come out of it. Well the CPS Worker told me this was a waste of time, but it’s not his decision to open a case or not. Legally they have to meet with the parents and the child and try to have a conversation with the child. Brooklyn is three, you can only imagine how that conversation went. They even used a tape recorder on her and they had to ask her if she wanted her Mom to stay. I am glad she said yes, since she probably didn’t even understand what that meant. Hopefully nothing like this happens again.