Cheerios are not meant to go in the nose! You would think this is common sense ... Ryan missed out on that memo :). This morning we were having breakfast and Ryan starts screaming ... "there's a cheerio in my nose, there's a cheerio in my nose" and he is crying at the same time. Jeremy and I look at each other wondering if we just heard what we heard? Yes, we heard that he had a cheerio in his nose.
We look up the nose and sure enough there is a cheerio in his nose. When asked why he put a cheerio up his nose he said "Pace told me to last night so I did it this morning." Gotta love peer, or in this case brother pressure!
I called the pediatrician's office since our pediatrician has saturday hours. They told us to take him to the Childrens Hospital ER since at this point it could no longer be seen. I'm thinking ... cheerios get soggy and dissolve won't it just go away? But they said to go so off we go.
We get there and I give him his name all the while I'm praying that we don't get sick germs while we are there since we are getting ready for a very important trip and I don't want anyone sick! We sit down and I prayed that God would allow this cheerio to come out on it's own and that we would not need to be seen. I didn't want him going through an invasive procedure. They called his name so we went back. The nurse asked me to take his jacket off so they could weigh him and as I am taking off his jacket he tells me that "the cheerio just went down my throat". So, I looked at the nurse and said "guess we can go home then." She looked at me like I was CRAZY - certifiable really! He was a different child so I knew it was gone because he was acting normal again and said he could breathe! Thank you Jesus for answering my prayer!!!
The moral of our story ... teach your children to not put cheerios up their nose! Our boys both NOW know that Cheerios go only in their mouth. Ryan learned it the hard way!
