Well, we had a bit of an adventure last Friday....Thursday night Ainsley didn't want to say goodnight to K because he stunk. I had noticed a smell a little earlier, but it had grown to an amazingly strong infection smell. He had a cold and sounded stuffy, so I assumed he had a sinus infection. We went to the doctor first thing in the morning and she saw something and thought the smell might be coming from a foreign object. She got out her tools and started poking around and ended up shoving it much farther up his nose :o(. Let's just say, I have never had a good experience there and am switching his insurance, so we can take him to the kids' doctor. Anyway, she said we needed to go to Children's Hospital in Oakland and they would be ready for us. We started in emergency and got referred to the ENT specialist. 4 hours later and a very hungry (they wouldn't let him eat in case he had to have emergency surgery) and grumpy boy, it was determined they were going to have to put him under to get it out. Because he is a foster child, that meant getting a court order, so with that and the doctors schedule, we went in this morning. It was a long 6 days and we were all very ready to get it out...he was quite stinky and his nose was pretty irritated. So, the big question was, what was it???? I asked him and he and Ainsley concocted a story about Spongebob's hand and it was too weird. Turns out, they were right, he had a Spongebob paper/cardboard cut-out with felt arms/hands and I remember the hand falling off. For some reason, he thought it would be a good idea to stick it up his nose! He had a bloody nose about 3 weeks ago and I think that is when it happened. I am pretty sure he won't be doing that again any time soon!
I have to say, Children's Hospital surgery center really has it all figured out. It was such a pleasant, seamless experience. He was really upset and hungry when he woke up, but other than that, it went very smoothly :o). Glad its over....
K in his surgery suit:
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