i hate popcorn kernels

the other night while watching a movie with the kids a crazy little thing happened. i saw that joaquin was messing with his ear and decided to take a look. he had shoved a popcorn kernel in his ear. i laid him on the bed and got my tweezers and was able to retrieve it without too much trouble. but of course this was too easy...there was another one shoved all the way in his ear. i tired to use the tweezers but i was afraid i was going to push it further in. my husband and i talked it over and then it was off to the emergency room again for the 2nd time in a matter of weeks.

the doctor there tried a couple of different methods and managed to get it out only to find ANOTHER one all the way in his ear. this one the er doctor said he was going to need to see and ear, nose and throat specialist. so we made an appointment for the next morning at 7am.

the next morning the ent doctor said that it was pushed too far in his ear and that she would have to sedate him to get it out!! so they scheduled him for 10am, so we waited and filled out paperwork to get him registered. the crazy thing was that he wasn't going to be seen until 10 because there were 7 other kids in front of him scheduled for "foreign object removal" procedures. that helped and i didn't feel like such a horrible parent. haha

15 -20 minutes later the doctor came out to the waiting room to say the procedure went well and she had no trouble at all. that was when i heard him screaming from the tops of his lungs all the way from the waiting room. she must have seen the horror in my eyes and assured me that it was normal behavior for a child coming out of anesthesia. 45 minutes later we were being wheeled through the waiting room and lobby while i clutched him tightly so he wouldn't fall out of my arms. he kicked, hit, screamed all the way to the car and then continued to throw himself around while strapped into his car seat.

i have never in my life seen him act like that before. it was the craziest thing. we finally got home and he finally calmed down. after his nap he was totally fine and needless to say that was an adventure.

now we are going to see if we can go a couple weeks without going to the emergency room. ha ha