"Yeh. Stuck!"

It is always wise to be slightly concerned when a small boy comes in with half his finger up his nose saying "Stuck". Especially if raisins had been being eaten just prior.

He doesn't tend to stick his finger that far up as a rule.

So....

"Your finger's stuck?"

"Noooooooooo"

"A raisin is stuck?"

"Yeh. Stuck!"

So. What do you do in that situation? Not having done it before, I did what I always do with a new child problem - post on MN and call Psycho.

Psycho had me laying him back and shining a torch up his nose. The only one I had projects a spider onto the wall, but it gave off enough light for me to see that it was well and truly stuck out of my reach. She said A&E. MN said get him to blow his nose/sneeze* - wasn't happening, grab it with tweezers - I'm lethal enough with chopsticks let alone my pointy tweezers up a wriggling boy's nose, get to A&E.

Soooooooo - off we went. Called Gran to explain and ask her to collect Flamechick. Called Boy to tell him to meet us there from work.

A&E staff kept pretty much a straight face as they hoiked said raisin back out with tweezers. Flameboy glared at them when they threw away his raisin (waste of good food clearly). Once it was out he proudly pointed to his nose and said "Gone!"

Car journey home:

"Mummy..... Gone!"

"Yes. Did it hurt having a raisin up there?"

"Yeh"

"Are you going to do it again?"

"Yeh!"

Oh dear......




*further advice arrived after I left telling me to hold the good nostril, blow in his mouth and he should exhale from his nose. I will bear that in mind next time it happens... there will be a next time...