It all began with J eating supper...well eating isn't really the right word I guess. I was cleaning up O's supper and E was reading something. The next thing I know J is coughing oddly. I come over and find him putting peas up his nose. Well, I stopped that right away and squeezed out two and could see a third still there. E got the tweezers and aspirator and after a lot of crying and fighting we were able to get #3 out only to find #4 too high for us to reach. So at 6 pm (on the 18th) we load everyone into the car and off to the base ER. We were able to get in right away and after another hour of looking and prodding, this time with out too much fuss for J, they were able to get #4 out only to find that #5 was way to high for them to even try to reach. We got home around 8 pm and were off again to the ER at 6 am the next morning hoping it worked it's way down and out. It didn't. It was higher up there still and we were referred to a ENT in La Quinta (1 1/2 hours away). We were able to get in the same day and drove down there around noon only to sit there for five minutes have him tell us there was nothing to do but wait and see. We stopped for lunch and back home again. J has a follow up appointment next week with his regular doctor so hopefully the pea is gone.
The worst case would be that it is still there and begins to rot. Then they will have to take it out one way or other...which would mean putting J under and digging for it. Lord willing it won't come to that and so far everything seams to be normal with him, that's a good sign at least.
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