Imagine having a Lego stuck up your nose for 3 years and not knowing it? A little 6 year old boy named Isaak did just that. When he was three years old, he stuck a Lego tire off a car up into his nose and there it stayed until he was six! The kid kept getting sinus infections, couldn't breath very well, had trouble sleeping and just didn't feel very good. Dr's kept prescribing all sorts of medicines and antibiotics and asking him if he put anything in his nose. "No, said Isaak, just some spaghetti but that already came out." Finally, one Dr. (how in the world did the other Dr.'s miss it?) noticed a shadow way up his nose. A specialist removed the fungus covered Lego. The parents felt bad, but how in the world would they know if even Doctors did not catch it?
This very situation could have happened to our family. Tierney was about 15 months old sitting in a high chair eating her lunch while Linda cleaned up the kitchen. Whenever Tierney was quite, Linda would know she was up to something. She was always talking...unless she was sleeping. It took about 20 seconds to realize it was silent. Tierney had started stuffing raisins up her nose! Linda got out as many as she could and called the Doctor. They said to bring her in STAT because they could get into her airways. All was fine and she learned her lesson that food goes in your mouth, not your nose.
(P.S. Writing this reminded her of the time Taylor, the world's pickiest eater as a kid, hid the food off his plate in the VCR slot because he didn't want to eat it.)
