Well, what can you say. I found a disc battery in willem's nose this morning, while I was getting Cooper ready for school. I know it's been in there since sunday. He suddenly got stuffy sunday and since he's asthmatic I didn't think too much of it until he said, "maybe I'm stuffed up because of the battawee I stuffed up mines nose." I freaked and looked in there and didn't see anything. Then he said, "MOmmy it felled out of mines nose and went under da bed". Then he took me in his room and showed me. Sure enough a disc battery was under his bed. Thought nothing of it monday when brown mucus was oozing out of his nose, the kid gets bloody noses all the time. then This morning I was going to try and remove some crusties from his nose. I had him blow a little, and then used the flash light and tweezers and hit something hard, Instead of crying he winced. If that was his septum he'd have screamed. I sprayed saline in there looked again and sure enough there was the edge of something shiney. I pulled it out and it was VERY corroded. I tried not to freak to much. I did a neti rinse with warm water, and decided to wait it out. Took him to the emergency room after he layed down on my bed and went to sleep and I couldn't get him to eat (9:30am).
at the emergency room He just layed motionless on the cot for most of the day. While we were there I noticed that the draninage had left a red, irritated trail down his upper lip as well as a couple of very small blisters. Can we say battery acid. They almost let us go home until they took his temp and it was 102. We were admitted at 3pm. Frankly I was a little relieved. Casey got off of work early, brad wife picked up cooper from the bus stop (those are awesome friends).
I left willem for about 10 min. When I went to get casey from the train station. AS I walked back into t he room will was trying to take out his IV. He was too tired and weak to accomplish the task thank goodness. He sure is strong WILLed. It was a long day and a longer night. NO run today. | 