Mar 27th, 2007
My Eyes Are All Googly!
After spending 40 minutes in the pediatrician’s office, 45 minutes at the park to pass time, and an hour in the ear specialists office, my eyes are googly!
Fall back to last week. Jason is complaining that the water won’t drain out of his ear. I tell him to tip his head to the side and shake it, cuz that always helps, right? He stops complaining. Sunday night after his bath, he’s complaining again, so I tell him to tip his head to the side and shake it. No good. At bedtime, I look in his ear and see something. It looks like a big ball of wax or a “thing” - hoping for the big ball of wax, I get the tweezers. I barely poked it and chickened out when it was HARD! First thing Monday a.m. I call the pediatrician and we get a 9:45 appointment. The pediatrician has me holding Jason down while she tries to get “it” out - he’s screaming cuz it hurts and she can’t get it out. After about 5 tries with different tools, she makes us an appointment with an ENT - and not the ENT we use for Keira (she’s got tubes) but another one, cuz ours doesn’t have any room for anything else today. So not only do I have to find a new office as far away from our house as possible, we have to go through the registration process - ick. After waiting in the lobby for 45 minutes, we get put in a room for 15 minutes. Doc says to go to the “procedure” room, which looks way too surgical for Jason’s taste 
Doc has some fun tools that the ped. didn’t have, but Jason still freaks cuz he THINKS it’s awful, so the nurse comes in and they have to strap him down in a straight jacket thingy! That did not go over so well, but in 10 seconds the “thing” was out.
And what was that “thing” in my son’s ear? A googly eye! Yes, you heard me right - a googly eye that you’d glue on a pom pom or a piece of paper! We’ve been lucky that neither of our kids have felt the need to stick “things” in “places” - well, except for the diamond-in-the-nose incident of 2004. And I always thought we’d have to go to the doc to get something removed from somewhere, but I certainly did NOT think it would be for my 6 1/2 year old! Sheesh!
He swears he has no clue where it came from or how it got there. He’s a bad liar and I’m good at getting him to confess on his own terms, but this time, I’ve got nothing. He’s either gotten really good at lying or is suffering a bout of selective amnesia. In either case, I’m pretty certain that after today’s events (tons of waiting around, pain in the ear, missing pajama day at school, being strapped down to a table) he will not be putting ANYTHING other than his elbow in his ear!
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Oh dear! My boys haven’t done anything like that, and I had already been thinking that we’ve made it past that phase of life where we need to watch for foreign objects in their ears! I guess we better keep checking periodically!
[...] guess given this incident, I shouldn’t have been so surprised when he had a googly eye in his ear 3 years [...]