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DH just had to take 5 year old DD to A&E

65 replies

Peopleplease · 25/02/2019 18:14

Because she pushed a bit of paper into her ear! I would expect it of 2 year old DD but thought 5 year old was past this stage.

Apparently she wanted to pretend it was wax! (She does have issues with wax build up and has had drops and liked getting bits of wax out!)

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Youmadorwhat · 25/02/2019 21:24

@Peopleplease fellow Irish here!! I hear ya €100 sucks!!

Adeste · 25/02/2019 21:25

Ime 4 is about the height of maturity and common sense. Pretty much downhill after that.

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Peopleplease · 25/02/2019 21:29

They’re still there so DD is going to be having tomorrow off school.

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starfishmummy · 25/02/2019 21:31

I have a late teen with SN. We're often trotting to the GP to have something removed from his ear.

DaisyDreaming · 25/02/2019 21:31

Isn’t ‘mother’s kiss’ onto meant to be done under medical supervision? Just before anyone tries it from just seeing this thread

NeverTwerkNaked · 25/02/2019 21:32

I stuck a bead up my nose when I was 5. The only reason I did it is because my brother told me to Grin. He was always telling me to do stupid stuff and bafflingly I always did it.

stayathomer · 25/02/2019 21:34

When ds was 5 he put a stone up his nose. It still sends a shiver down my spine. A year later we just stopped other ds who was 7 putting a sweet into his ear. Hope he's okay op

Longdistance · 25/02/2019 21:35

Dd1 had a pea stuck up her nose the FIRST time. Second time was a piece of sponge.

Dd2 was around 5 when she got tissue stuck up her nose, two days before we were due to go to Barbados 🤷🏼‍♀️

Dauphinois · 25/02/2019 21:35

A butternut squash?! Good lord!

Dauphinois · 25/02/2019 21:35

That was @Cotton Sock

OhTheRoses · 25/02/2019 21:36

DH used to hold his younger sister down and put his rolled up bogies up her nose. First time I heard it I thought it was gross. 30+ years on I've little sympathy and wish I'd kicked her up the backside often. Shame her mother didn't. TBF I gather she stuck beads up her nose - twice. At least DH had the intellect to use organic matter.

Sorry - not point of thread.

HughLauriesStubble · 25/02/2019 21:39

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IDoN0tCare · 25/02/2019 21:40

Oh crap! I just remembered - I live in Ireland.

I’m sorry, but that did make laugh. I love the idea that you forgot what country you live in. Grin

JustOneShadeOfGrey · 25/02/2019 21:41

There’s a great display in our local children’s hospital of objects that have been removed from noses and ears! It’s eye watering!

lancashirebornandbred · 25/02/2019 21:44

When one of my sons was about 6, he put a small Lego sword up his nose because he’d been eating some fizzy sweets and they tickled his nose. The doctor took the sword out with tweezers. It was covered in snot of course...

Sal1977 · 25/02/2019 21:47

We ended up at A&E last weekend as my DS aged 3 swallowed a coin. Twit.

44hours later it appeared.

DH just had to take 5 year old DD to A&E
Aridane · 25/02/2019 21:47

A&E would be out of business without small children inserting bits in their orifices!

Madcats · 25/02/2019 21:48

Just to reassure you all..... I'm in my 50s and had 'form' for sticking things in my ears as a preschooler (beads, leaves, tissues to try to pull said leaves out that got covered in wax..). We were 50:50 sent to hospital/grumpy nurse with a hook thing.

On the plus side, I have good hearing and no excess wax/syringing needs these days.

bodyform do let us know when the wedding speech is due. There is nothing like a brother...

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 25/02/2019 21:50

Is that the one in Sheffield Grey ? I remember being in there with ds and a woman said to her ds "It's not a challenge!"
Dfil had chronic sinus trouble in his youth. He had some work done to sort it and there was one of those mini playing cards rolled up in there. Sister had been playing doctors.

AlexaAmbidextra · 25/02/2019 21:53

Well, if we’ve moved on from innocent children to sexual fetishes, we had a regular in A&E in the 70s/80s who used to stick an entire Corona bottle neck-first up his arse. Glass bottle, full-size. He frequently had to go to theatre for removal. Mind you, his abdominal x-ray with bottle in situ was a thing to behold. 🙄. Ah, fond memories.

Steeve · 25/02/2019 21:57

Reminds me of the time an earbud dislodged in my ear, needed surgery to remove. Blush. DS at around five swallowed some magnets, he wanted to see if they'd be stuck together when they came out, and also did the Lego in ear thing!

Allgoodfun · 25/02/2019 22:05

Ds had years of ear infections, pain etc from age 8- 15, always put down to swimmers ear. At yet another doctor appt when he was 15 she looked in his ears and could see something in one. She managed to tweezer it out and it was a folded uppiece of paper, completely waxed over. He has no idea how it got there so have to assume it had been there years. Solved the ear infections.

enjoyingscience · 25/02/2019 22:10

God, bodyform, that’s hilarious. His poor willy!

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Peopleplease · 25/02/2019 22:17

She’s home! Took 5 mins to get it out with a hook thing. The doctor told her not to put anything smaller than her elbow in her ear.

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0hT00dles · 25/02/2019 22:21

If she’s in school youve probably got her insurance! Our school has its own as well as our own one with vhi. So keep the receipt when you get it and claim back if you can. Our school always has to remind parents that they can claim....as they forget.

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