Lost Objects

@jillhill (37354)
United States
September 10, 2007 3:40pm CST
A couple of weeks ago...they had to take my granddaughter to the urgent care. Seems she stuck a rubber band up her nose and they couldn't get it out. When my sister was little she put a pea up hers and they didn't know it right away until she started smelling really funny. My brother went to itch his ear with a pencil and the eraser came off....it had to be flushed out! Have you ever done something and lost an object that needed to be extracted from your body?
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• United States
10 Sep 07
That has never happened to me before. My brother's friend stuck an eraser up in nose in elementary school and they had to go have it taken out. Then my cousin's little girl stuck one of those styrofoam pieces (they sometimes call popcorn) that came in a box in the mail up her nose and it started expanding so they had to get her to the hospital and they had to get it out.
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
10 Sep 07
Oh my gosh! She could have suffocated. Thanks so much for sharing!
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
11 Sep 07
I recall a book out by a Dr from the Boston ER about objects stuck in peoples different orrifices. Some sad stories there yet some hilarious ones. asons along this area.
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
11 Sep 07
ooops forgot to say I added this comment because there were a lot of "peanuts" stuck in places.
@kristi73 (257)
• United States
10 Sep 07
When my little girl was about one or so she got a small piece of banana stuck in her nose. For about 3 days or so I thought it was a booger and kept trying to get it out with my finger nail so she could breath better but with no success. So after about 3 days, she was sitting in her high chair and sneezed really hard and out it came. When it came out you could totally tell it was banana and I could not help but bust up laughing.
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
10 Sep 07
My granddaughter finally sneezed at the hospital. My daughter in law said if she had thought to give her some pepper it might have saved them some serious money! LOL
@fritz27 (1136)
• United States
11 Sep 07
Years ago, won't tell you how long!!! I put a lima bean up my nose. Don't know why, don't even remember how they got it out, but I know it isn't there now!
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
11 Sep 07
I guess sometimes we just need to know if it fits or not LOL! Thanks for sharing!
@nmw2005 (1197)
• United States
11 Sep 07
I know someone who put a tiny magnet up her nose and couldn't get it out. At the hospital they just put another magnet under her nose and it came out.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
11 Sep 07
Sometimes there is an easy solution but we get nervous and can't think! Thanks for sharing!
@AmbiePam (85713)
• United States
10 Sep 07
You mean she stuck a pea in her nose, and they didn't know it until she physically started to smell? Or that she noticed she was smelling things different or funny? That is hilarious. I mean it's bad, but hilarious. In first grade a kid in my class stuck corn up his nose and had to be taken to the emergency room. I stuck a fake pearl up my nose when I was seven on a dare. My mom about freaked out, but after a lot of uh, 'snorting', it came out. : )
@AmbiePam (85713)
• United States
10 Sep 07
Oh no, I don't know she ever lived that down!
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
10 Sep 07
She stunk! My mom couldn't figure out why ...then took her to the doctor and they somehow got the pea out. So it was her that stunk! LOL
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@jep983 (50)
11 Sep 07
When I was 4 I stuck the bottom part of a mandarin orange up my nose. I had to pay a trip to the hospital to get it removed.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
11 Sep 07
Oh my.....that is really something strange to put up your nose! But there are alot of strange things we do! LOL
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
11 Sep 07
Two little short tales here. My sister when she was about 10 had a Q-Tip cleaning her ear. Well she was walking around doing this and hit the wall. The q0tip punctured her ear drum giving her a temporary loss of hearing. To this day I will not use a q-tip in my ear. Now when I was a machinist years ago I had steel shavings fly into my face. I had to go to the ER due to severe headaches the next day. I felt nothing unusual other than headaches. Well turns out I had shavings in my eye. Yes in it. They used a magnet to pull it out enough to grab it with tweezers. There were about 6 pieces I think total. The feeling of the magnet pulling the eyeball as it attracted the steel was strange to say the least. That didn;'t hurt either. It was just annoying seing the magnet & tweezers up so close. They looked like tools from the cast of Land Of The Giants. asons along this area.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
11 Sep 07
Wow....to both. What a shock to find shaving in your eyes....you are very lucky! And the qtip....man I use them all the time. Makes you think!
@venshida (4836)
• United States
11 Sep 07
No, I have not, and I don't recall any of my friends putting anything in their body either. Did your grandaughter have to have surgery to remove the rubber bands? I bet she won't do that again.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
11 Sep 07
No somehow they got her to sneeze and it flew out!
@isaiah12 (416)
• United States
11 Sep 07
I had a niece who got a tic-tac stuck up her noise. And my oldest daughter when she was about 8 years old had pieced ears. One morning she woke up and said her ear was sore. I checked it and could not find the back to her earring. I tried to take the earring off and it wouldn't move. I checked closer and the back was inside the hole in her ear. I couldn't get it out. I brought her to the ER. They numbed the ear, held her down and pulled it out. Then they gave her medicine fro infection.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
11 Sep 07
OMG! Poor baby!