Up her nose!

One day back in December (when Eli was just a few weeks old) Lily stuck a foam circle up her nose! Joe was gone (ironically testing to get his EMT certification), I was taking a shower, Eli was napping, and Lily was watching a video (or so I thought). As soon as I got out of the shower Lily came running into the bathroom claiming that she stuck something up her nose. I looked and couldn't see anything, but she kept saying that she did and that it hurt. So I got out the flashlight, looked up her nose, and sure enough way up there was a little purple foam circle! It was a part of the foam alphabet set that Lily and Eli got in their Christmas mittens from church. I imagine that it was the center of the "B" or the "O"- something like that. The purple foam was way to far up her nose for me to try to get it, and being unable to reach Joe, I called and made a doctor's appointment for a few hours later (it was the earliest they could get us in). Thankfully though the foam up her nose kept making her sneeze and the sneezing moved the foam closer and closer. Until...just 20 minutes before we had to leave for the doctor the foam had moved down so much that I was able to get it with a tweezers (while I was nursing the baby none-the-less- talk about multi-tasking)!
After this we had a number of conversations about how we shouldn't stick things up our nose. Apparently these conversations didn't leave much of an impression. Because... just a few nights ago she did it again! I had started throwing these foam letters away as I found them, but apparently she had a few lurking under her bed. Well, on Tuesday night at around 8:30p.m. I went upstairs to turn off Lily's lights (she is becoming afraid of the dark). She was still awake and not happy that I was turning off her lights- when she declared that she stuck foam up her nose. To be honest I thought she was making it up at first- maybe it was a creative ploy so that she could stay up longer. Or I thought that possibly she was just remembering the time she did it back in December. But once again she insisted that she did it that night and that it hurt. I got out the flashlight again, but after many attempts to look up her nose I couldn't find anything. So I turned off her lights and she finally went to sleep. Really I thought she was making it up. But still I mentioned it to Joe when he got home from his meeting that night. So, when she happened to wake up randomly at 10:30p.m. Joe took the opportunity to get out the flashlight and look for himself. And sure enough- there was foam up there (red triangle shapes this time)! But this time it was REALLY far up her nose. With me holding her down Joe tried to suction it, tried to get it with the tweezers, and even tried blowing in her mouth (and closing one nostril) to get it out. We didn't have any success and Joe was nervous that if we let her go back to sleep that it could work it's way loose on it's own and go down her mouth and choke her (I hadn't even thought of that). So at 11p.m. that night Joe and Lily headed to the Emergency Room. It took a pair of nose spreaders and 3 people holding her down to get the foam out of her nose this time. Joe didn't think it was really hurting her, but apparently she was quite scared and pretty much hysterical. My poor baby. I'm so happy that I didn't have to be there to watch. By the time they got home at 1:30a.m. she was just fine and asking if she could have her special M&M snack!:) Joe had a good talk with her right after the procedure about how she should never stick anything up her nose again- hopefully this time there was more of an impact!