Date: 01-02-09
Person(s): AllieCat
Place: In Subject's booster seat/ kitchen table
Summation: Picky-eater makes the best of an unfavorable situation; unfortunately making said situation much worse.
Case Description: At appx. 6pm AllieCat doesn't want to more than "lick" her peas (this is her compromise with her mother). As dinner progresses, AllieCat says loudly, "NOSE?" Mom looks to her and AllieCat has her finger deep into her nose. (She's never done that before) Mom says, "No, yuckie! Don't put your finger in your nose, okay? Eat your yummy dinner." Mom reports that AllieCat grabs a pea and put it just up to her nose, and says "Okay..."
"Not okay, leave Nose alone, That would be not good. Please eat >Num< >Num<" AllieCat looks at mom as if she was determined that it was indeed okay to spend so much time with her nose.
Then Mom has a hunch and asks AllieCat if she had put a pea in her nose. AllieCat then proceeds to flair her nostrils. And panics. Mom bends down under her face and looks up. Yes. Yes there is a pea WAY WAY up Allie's nose. At this point, Mom calls in Reinforcements, "Jake! Jake!! Allie just stuck a pea up her nose! Come Here!" (Jake was not present initially.) Jake proceeds to come in to the room with Standard Issue Equipment, the camera. Jake assists by snapping pictures of AllieCat in dire panic while Mom rummages in baby stuff to find the bulb suction thing. It doesn't work very well so Jake presses on her sinuses (she's getting pretty snotty out of survival, anyway) to push it out, and I am able to get it.
Note: Most have never seen her like this. What proceeds is not for the faint of heart. Please view with caution. If you are medical personnel or a mom, you are welcome to click on the picture to enlarge it. Only if you look close enough, will you see The Pea.
This was taken "mid-milestone." Photo courtesy of Jake.
Follow Up: We cleaned her up from the state she was in in the photo. AllieCat, Jake, and Mom went to the Stake Family Dance for a time and all persons involved in the case had a great rest-of-the-evening, dancing the night away.
