Reader, we do not know if you are a parent or if you will ever be one. But if you happen to fall into one of these categories, take it easy, one day you will be in the emergency room with a child with a Lego around his nose. This incident is so common that if you just point to your child and say “Lego in the nose”, hospital staff will shove you and send you to a special room full of long, pointed tweezers, designed to take Legos out of little noses. Please consider this prophetic warning when this happens to you. It’s an inevitability.
Because you do not extract that Lego, your child may come up like this New Zealand child we read about in The guard today. Special thanks to Jemaine “Nose for News” Clement for warning us about this breaking story:
Two years ago, Dunedin’s 5-year-old Sameer Anwar complained to his parents that he could not find a particular Lego piece. Because Sameer had previously sniffed an imitation pearl’s nostril, his concerned parents took their son to the doctor, who assured the parents that he had not been in need since the boy. The Lego piece, if it was indeed in the boy’s body, had almost traveled through his system on its own time. (Let us not forget the groundbreaking scientific study a few years ago when six people wandered Lego mini-figure heads, deduced that that travel time was about two days. Science!)
However, Sameer’s Lego piece never came up until this week when a strong inhalation of a plate of cupcakes apparently loosened the Lego piece. As The guard describes in poetic terms: “Immediately his nose began to sore. Thinking he had sniffed some cookie crumbs, his mother helped him to blow his nose, hoping to clear his nostrils properly. But instead of pink cake crumbs, a small piece of black Lego fell down, covered with mold. “It seems to be the arm of a Lego minifigure.
Well done, Sameer! Now that the boy is 7 years old, we assume that his days of things are slipping into his nostrils behind him. For the rest of your parents with small children … we see you in the ER.
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