Yesterday a colleague of mine
told me she had to take her son to the doctor’s. A few days earlier he told her
he had a bit of pain in his ear but she looked and saw nothing and assumed he
was just goofing around. Two nights ago, she felt the urge to check his ear with
a flashlight and realized that there was indeed something hiding in there. After several attempts to get it out
unsuccessfully, she decided to take him in to the hospital yesterday and thank God she
did as the doctor helped pull out the obstruction in the ear. Apparently, she
bought a new freezer over the weekend and after unpacking it, her son was
playing around with the white foamy package thingy
that came with it. She, of course, immediately took it off him when she noticed,
but I suppose by then he had torn of a part of it and stuffed it into his ears.
(rolling my eyes @ these shidrens).
It reminds me of my experience
with my son shortly after I had my daughter. I noticed he was rubbing his
nostril in a weird way and so I called him and looked into it. Lo and behold, I
noticed something stuffed deep inside his nose which was clearly making him
very uncomfortable. I almost fainted in shock not to talk of my rampaging hormones! Between my hubby, our friend
Tony and me, we tried unsuccessfully to get the strange item out of his nose. I
started crying because a trip to the ER was the last thing I wanted that day (I
would need to do another post for you to understand why, lol), and it seemed
almost inevitable. Then I recalled a trick I used to get him to blow his nose
while giving him a bath, tried it and it worked! The stuff slid out of his
nostril slowly till we could reach it to pull it out. It turned out to be a
corner piece from a front cover of a University brochure we had lying in the
living room. He had torn the bit off, rolled it and inserted it into his nose!!! He sat there with a sheepish grin on his face afterwards, blissfully unaware of the panic he had created.
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| Bless the cheeky bugger. :) |
The thing is that with toddlers,
you can’t do enough. It is an ongoing process to ensure their safety so we must
be at alert always. By “we”, I mean the
parents, uncles, aunties, grannies, friends and everyone around any toddler. We need to be more sensitive to their whims
and needs and try our best to pay better attention to them however overwhelmed
we might be. I did also engaged in my fair share of pranks while growing up as I wrote about a bit of that here.
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| Sigh. Can you relate? |
The point of this post is to
remind all adults to always pay better attention to kids. The reason I decided
to write is because of a creepy video I came across yesterday. A little girl
told her mum she felt some movements in her mouth and after checking and not
seeing anything, the mother thought it was nothing serious and that perhaps the
10-year-old girl was joking. After the girl became unusually persistent, the
mother took her to a dentist who then found out that the girl had a rare case
of oral myiasis which is a maggot infection whereby fly-lava-maggots grows in
living beings. *Shudders*.
If you have the stomach for it,
check out the video after the cut below.
***Very graphic and gross***
Brace yourself.
I can honestly relate with this post....Lol, I was one of those kids that did it all back then, * covers face* I swallowed d seeds of the Yoruba game called ayoo, I pushed in bean seeds in my nostrils, tried swallowing 1 naira coin..hmm!! need i say more? Lucky for me my Dad was a Medical doctor and so that saved my folks loads of money going to the hospital for my many adventures.
ReplyDeleteI will say I have been lucky so far with my 5 yrs old daughter who didn't take after me at all, but I don't think I would be that lucky for long as my 8 months old son is already too adventurous for his age* God help me* just like you said we need to be very attentive to their complaints and discomforts, it could be life threatening sometimes. Also about the video biko I no get mind watch am.