remember that rather heated thread about doctors addressing you as 'Mum'?

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Think I may have accidentally shown one health professional why it's a bad idea tonight.

When this guy wearing blue scrubs had removed the lentil-sized object from ds's eye (be careful at the Science Museum over half-term, won't you?) I said 'now, say thank you to nice nurse'. Only he wasn't a nurse, he was a doctor. Oops!

He had the grace to point out it was his own fault for not telling us who on earth he was.

I wasn't thinking about the heated MN debate at the time, just frazzled by having to hang around in A&E when dh COULD have noticed earlier in the day rather than waiting until they'd got off the sodding train back from the museum, by which time the doctor's surgery was shut etc. etc. etc. And the first person we saw had been a male (triage) nurse, wearing very similar blue scrubs.

NB we had tried to wash the lentil thingy out of ds's eye with water, and eye drops, and made various attempts with cotton buds and tissues. Doc tried cotton buds too but had to give in and reach for the tongs.

Oh well, at least you didn't call him "love-muffin!"

He should feel honoured to be called a nurse. Seriously. What a compliment for a Dr!

LOL @ chipmonkey and YoginiBikini! Tumbleweed, surely DH noticed when he noticed?! Lentils are pretty small, unless you want to get into a veggie frenzy about "red" or "puy"?! ;P And unless you want to get into aggro about when he "noticed" as opposed to when he noticed. Was ds in distress during or after visit to Science Museum? Is he OK now? Thanks for warning - didn't think lentils were that scientific! ;)

Oops sorry, missed replies!

Tumbleweed, it was a flat plastic disc, lentil-like was the closest I could get to describing it, but bigger. A big sequin with no hole in the middle, perhaps? Think it was the flat-ness that made it hard to remove.

Of course dh noticed when he noticed, but it must have been an HOUR after leaving the museum and he timed his discovery and return perfectly to miss our GP surgery hence the hassle of going to A&E. Am tutting, not having a major go. But am amazed that he didn't look at ds properly for at least an hour, the thing was really obvious as soon as you looked ds in the face.

(Apparently it was part of one of the things they can play with in the Launch Pad bit - a conveyor belt and buckets where they can pick up these discs and then spill them out.)