Toddlerhood

Well we have the quintessential kid injury out of the way. Hopefully, now that it's happened we won't have to worry about it happening again. You guessed it, Tessa stuck something up her nose. It was a small, smooth bead. One minute she had it in her hand and the next she is fussily saying nose. Sure enough it is jammed up there way further than we could hope to extract. We suggest taking her to the doctor to have them get it out and she fussily agrees. She was a little shaken up about it but was a brave little trooper. To get it out, they put a catheter up her nose past the bead, blew air into the catheter to make it blow up like a balloon on the end, and then pulled out the catheter removing the bead with it. She started crying as they were inserting the catheter and I could see she was uncomfortable and scared. Thankfully it was over fairly quickly. As soon as they finished getting it out, I was quick pick her up and reassure her that they had gotten it out and it was all done. She was happy and relieved when it was over and has since mentioned it many times in the last 3 weeks since it happened saying "bead out; all done!" We've since gotten the bill in the mail and go figure there is actually a medical code specifically for billing getting a foreign object out of the nose. Also of note, that billing code bills $225! Luckily this happened in a year we had already met our deductible so we only paid about $25 but wow - that could have been expensive!