The mothers kiss.

Another weekend including a visit to the ER. This time with Andréa who got the very bright idea to put a corn up her nose. And I really mean up her nose, so far we hardly could see it. But it was clearly there, a small, yellow piece of corn totally stuck. We tried to make her blow but that didn't help. At one point she fell of an armchair and cried so we put a finger on the unaffected nostril to make her blow it out when she was sobbing but that didn't help. H tried to get it out with a sinus cleanser, that only made her furious and hysteric. So nothing else to do but to buckle up and go to the ER, 9 pm on a Saturday evening. I have had two glasses of wine during supper and was feeling very illegal indeed.

Well there they took us in straight away, apparently folks tend to stay away from the ER on Saturday evenings to go there on Sunday mornings instead. The doctor looked and confirmed that it actually was a corn stuck up Andréa's nose, then he turned to me and asked me if I tried "The mothers kiss". I never heard of that and he explained to me that I just put my finger over the unaffected nostril, blocking it, and put my mouth over Andréa's and blow in it. With a little bit of luck the corn might just pop out of the other nostril. On the second attempt the corn flew out to the doctor and the nurse applauds. A tiny little piece where still stuck though so the doctor had to dig in a bit with his instruments and Andréa had a bit of a cry, but after she was satisfied and very tired.


Bottom line: the mothers kiss rocks and I really need a weekend without going to the ER...