4 Hours of My Life I Will Never Get Back!!!

So last night I'm sitting at the computer, doing a little work and I see Taryn chewing on something. So I ask her what she's chewing on and she says 'a barbie shoe', so I tell her to get it out of her mouth and stop chewing on it. Not even 2 minutes later she comes running over to me and all I hear is "mommy, my nose". AWWW!!! I knew right away what she'd done! So I tell her to sit down while I run up stairs (not too panicked) to get the tweezers. I put her on my lap and look up her nose. I can totally see it so I proceed to try to get it out. Well, of course she was squirming and this was making me push the shoe up farther in her nose and it was also making her nose bleed. The way the shoe was positioned was hard for me to get the tweezers around it. She kept squirming and the nose kept bleeding so I stopped.

Now here's the funny part (as if a shoe up the nose isn't funny enough!) Beau wasn't home and he had left his cell phone at home that day. He never leaves his cell phone at home NEVER!!! and last night he had a softball game at 6:30 so he had decided just to stay at work until the game. Not that a shoe up the nose is a real emergency, but I had no one to help me hold her down or to get an opinion on whether or not I should take her to the ER. To clarify the irony of Beau not being home, when we were in Florida all of our tragedies happened while he was on the boat. So know that he's home all the time our first issue just happens to happen when he's not home and I can't get a hold of him! Anyway, So I called the next best person...my mommy! And of course the suggestion was that if I couldn't get it out, it needed to come out and therefore I would have to take her to the ER.

So, I take Olivia to the neighbors house (they have 2 girls around Olivia's age) and headed to the hospital. I knew I would have to wait longer then it would take to get the stupid thing out, but I never anticipated that I would be waiting the ENTIRE NIGHT! I left at around 6:30pm. I go to the ER and quietly explain why we were there. I was trying to save us the embarrassment, but I suppose it was quite funny because the register lady and the nurse next to her starting laughing and very loudly said "she has a what stuck in her nose?!" The ER room was packed and so she sent me next door to the Urgent Care place telling me that I would get seen quicker over there. HA!!! I suppose quicker is a relative term. I waited for 1 1/2 just for them to take her back to get her vitals. Then we waited another 1 1/2 to get back into a room, then we waited 45min. for the dr. to come to see us.

Beau called around 9:30 wondering where we all were and just busted up laughing when I told him where and why we were there. I sent him to go get Olivia from the neighbors and told him hopefully we would be home soon.

After (no joking!) the 2 minutes it took to actually get the shoe out of her nose. We waited another 20 min. to get discharged. Considering what time it was and all the waiting we'd been doing Taryn was doing really well while we were in the waiting room. She was keeping everyone entertained with her LOUD talking and of course running everywhere, I tried to keep her as contained as I could, but when you have a 2yr old waiting for hours it's a little hard! Anyway, by the time I was waiting to be discharged she'd had enough, I'd had enough so I was on the war path! I went out and found a nurse and told them that either they bring the paperwork for me to sign or I was going to leave without signing it. It was 10:30, I'd been waiting since 7 o'clock and I had a 2yr old that was quickly losing it. I felt a little bad taking it out on the poor nurse, I know it wasn't her fault, but I'd had enough. So she kindly apologized brought me the papers and we FINALLY left! On the way home Taryn and I had nice conversation about not sticking things up our nose ever again! The whole thing started out pretty funny, but by the time I got home it was far from funny anymore, although Beau was still laughing!!!!

The darn culprit!!!