#3 is a chewer. He is constantly chewing all kinds of things which are not food. So, it came as no surprise to me today when he came in and said he had swallowed a rubber band. What else is new? He has eaten sticks in the back yard, what\u2019s a rubber band to that? Then he started to cry..<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s stuck in my throat.\u201d Gag, sputter, cough, gag<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe rubber band I was chewing. It got stuck in my throat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sigh. \u201cAlright, let me get a flashlight and look. What color was it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Sob, gag, cough, sob. \u201cBlue.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked, and sure enough, there it was a tiny bit of blue hanging down behind his uvula. How on earth had it gotten stuck up inside his sinuses? He says he was chewing on it and then started to sneeze. When he took the big \u201csneezy breath\u201d it got \u201csucked out of his mouth and up.\u201d<\/p>\n
How was I going to get it out? I told him to try blowing his nose. Nothing. Blow it harder. Nothing.<\/p>\n
I sent #1 for the tweezers and a bowl. I was either going to pull it out or stick my finger down his throat and see if he could vomit it up.<\/p>\n
Tweezers. The only thing scarier than being a kid whose mom is sticking tweezers up his throat, is being the mom doing the sticking\u2026 I could drop them, they could slide down the gullet and puncture something, or require surgery to get out, he could throw up on me, or\u2026.stop it! Who am I? My mother in law? I\u2019m not the worrier in this family. (Did you hear that? My dear husband just rolled his eyes at me.)<\/p>\n
So, back to the medical procedure\u2026I held a flashlight in one hand and the tweezers in the other\u2026went to the left of the uvula\u2026grabbed the little piece hanging down and pulled the whole thing out. Hooray!<\/p>\n
I would like to speak to my mother for a second. Mom, remember when we got the operation game when I was a kid? Remember how I could kick everyones a\u2026.behind and you said, \u201cIf only pulling tiny things out of weird shaped holes with tweezers were a marketable skill, you\u2019d be set for life.\u201d? Remember that mom? Do ya? Well, guess what? It was pretty darn useful, wasn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
Score:
\nme \u2013 1 Mom \u2013 1,895,417<\/p>\n
Watch out, mom! I\u2019m makin\u2019 a comeback.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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