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So...it's about half three Friday afternoon and Lucy has just got back from school. Around four we have cause to telephone the doctor's surgery. Then we need to make a journey across Plymouth to the accident unit (Cumberland Centre for those that know). We telephoned ahead to let them know that we were on our way as it shuts at five.
Much to our amazement, we arrived in good time - about twenty to five. A short wait and Lucy was in to be sorted. Five minutes later she's out, no tears, just her usual self. Great. Another satisfied customer of the NHS - aren't we lucky when things go well? :thumbsup:
I bet you're all dying to know what was wrong with her.....
She had a bit of orange peel stuck right up her left nostril!! :lol: Poor little angel....!
So - had anything interesting stuck up your nasal passage lately??!! :lol: Come on - someone must know a good story...has to be true mind. :D
dirtydog
09-12-06, 05:12 PM
A few months back my little girl decided to shove a stone from my gravel drive up her nose!!! :shock: :shock:
Biker Biggles
09-12-06, 05:25 PM
Threads like this really get up my nose. :wink:
So...it's about half three Friday afternoon and Lucy has just got back from school. Around four we have cause to telephone the doctor's surgery. Then we need to make a journey across Plymouth to the accident unit (Cumberland Centre for those that know). We telephoned ahead to let them know that we were on our way as it shuts at five.
Much to our amazement, we arrived in good time - about twenty to five. A short wait and Lucy was in to be sorted. Five minutes later she's out, no tears, just her usual self. Great. Another satisfied customer of the NHS - aren't we lucky when things go well? :thumbsup:
I bet you're all dying to know what was wrong with her.....
She had a bit of orange peel stuck right up her left nostril!! :lol: Poor little angel....!
So - had anything interesting stuck up your nasal passage lately??!! :lol: Come on - someone must know a good story...has to be true mind. :D
I thought you were taking the pith :D
TAXI!!!!!
northwind
09-12-06, 07:29 PM
Do you not have access to an air compressor? :)
Spiderman
09-12-06, 08:16 PM
I had some white powder up my nose the other day. It was feeling really blocked up and watery too making me sniff a lot.
Then the g/f told me you dont take Lemsip that way. :lol:
TAXI!!!!
I had some white powder up my nose the other day. It was feeling really blocked up and watery too making me sniff a lot.
Then the g/f told me you dont take Lemsip that way. :lol:
TAXI!!!! Dont forget this too spidey :D
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I really did swallow a 6d bit that my grandfather hid in the Christmas pud. Hospital sent me home again, nothing they could do. It passed through when I took a dump. True!!!!!!!!!!
Biker Biggles
10-12-06, 09:57 AM
6d bit?People of a certain age should never admit to having any recollection of "old money". :wink:
Hospital sent me home again, nothing they could do.
And when you mum rang the hospital to ask how you were they said "No change" :roll:
TAXI for Jabba, too
Hospital sent me home again, nothing they could do.
And when you mum rang the hospital to ask how you were they said "No change" :roll:
TAXI for Jabba, too
The 6d will help pay for it
I tried sniffing coke once but the bubbles went right up my nose...so I tried smoking **** but the cistern fell on my head!
:lol:
I'll be going now. :cry:
I saw the shrink once about my fixation for Emily Pankhurst, Wonder woman, Supergirl
I got told i was a heroin addict
:takeabow:
I saw the shrink once about my fixation for Emily Pankhurst, Wonder woman, Supergirl
I got told i was a heroin addict
:takeabow:
You made that up, didn't you :lol:
I haven't personally had anything stuck up my nose but a few years back when my now 7 year old was about 2 and a half we kept getting this funny smell whenever we went near her... It got worse and worse so eventually I took her to the doctors. When he examined her he said she has something up her nose and we'd have to go to A&E.
Upon arrival at the hospital and sitting round wating for hours in the children's department of the local hospital she was seen. After prodding and poking around up her nose they asked me to leave as they would have to hold her down to remove whatever it was stuck up there!
After I left I heard a lot of screaming as I pictured the doctors holding down my 2 year old then it went quiet. I was asked to go back in. She ran into my arms and said "nasty man" The thing that was stuck up her nose was..... a piece of bathroom sponge!! She had no problem sniffing because of the holes in it but it got infected and that's what the smell was!! YUCK!
A year or so later when we were moving out I found in one of my cupboards a spare bathroom sponge. When I picked it up it had a corner missing.... about the same size as the one they pulled out of my daughter's nose!!
Kids, don't you just love 'em! :roll:
:D
dirtydog
10-12-06, 06:14 PM
I The thing that was stuck up her nose was..... a piece of bathroom sponge!! She had no problem sniffing because of the holes in it but it got infected and that's what the smell was!! YUCK!
eeewwww
Tiger 55
10-12-06, 07:35 PM
I had a fly up my nose once. Just flying around minding it's own business, looping the loop and having it away at the same time, you know, fly stuff. And then it flew right up my nose...
My mate's Dad was a doctor so we ran there, me screaming "I don't want to die, I don't want to die!".
Despite being 'only' a GP (I wanted the full trauma team), he brings 20 years of medical experience to bear and gets me to blow my nose.
Problem solved. :D
Another true story. I must be really accident prone.
This is late October 1985.
My mother used to have some prize geraniums (don't laugh - yet) and she used to keep them on the patio of our house - we lived in south London at the time. Anyway, she used to work part time in a local old folks home, and she called me late at night as a frost was forecast and she wanted me to move them under cover. So I did. I had moved 3 or 4 out of the 10 when I felt a sharp jabbing in my left eye. As I bent down in the dark, one of the broken bamboo cans had jabbed my eyeball. Well it was OK so I didn't think anything more of it.
Next morning I woke up with the pain and I couldn't open my eye so I went off to Queen Mary's where the eye consultant just happened to be in - a Saturday - and under local he removed any number of bamboo splinters from the eye. Lucky it wasn't in the cornea. And then of course it got infected, so I was had a big patch for a few months and then had shades till New Year :roll:
Dysparunia
10-12-06, 10:09 PM
Handy Tip,
If you've a young kid with something stuck up their nose, rather than trying to fish it out (which can be painfull and difficult as they don't tend to keep still,
get them to open their mouth and then quickly cover it with yours and give a quick hard blow, the bit then often flys out.
Obviously best to only do this with a relation, or make sure the parents know what you're doing so they don't get the wrong idea!!
If you do try to fish it out, don't keep trying and trying if it's distressing them, as when you take them to hospital it'll be impossible for the big scary doc/nurses. (same goes for ears).
Next tip, if you get a fly in your ear, it can be very distressing (again esp for young 'uns). Not nice, but you can drown it with either water or olive oil, just be sure to get it all out so as is doesn't cause an infection.
Next week, how to tie shoelaces :wink:
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