Case of the $39 chocolate covered raisin

Yesterday we went out to a very big, very nice shopping mall . We all had a great time, we exchanged a lamp, wandered round some shops, Matthew played at the train table in Barns and Noble ( a big book store ) and then we had a fast food lunch while Matthew played in the play ground there. ( and there ends the good part of the day )

This mall is about 30 mins away down the interstate ( motorway ). On the way home Matthew suddenly pipes up with "where my choco ray gone?" ( choco ray being his attempt at Chocolate Raisin ) . Margaret was sitting in the 3rd row of seats in the Mini van ( Honda Odyssey ) and looked over to see if his little container was empty.... it wasn't. I looked back to see a chocolate raisin stuck up Matthews right nostril........... IN HIS NOSE...... What the hell possesses someone to shove a raisin up their nose?????? By the time Margaret had unbuckled herself and got round to him, he had, via sniffing and a finger, managed to push it so far up his nose that it had disappeared.

So we changed destination, from home to A and E ( $75 co-pay ). On the way to the hospital Margaret rang Matthew's doctor up and they told her to bring him in ($14 co-pay ). So off we went....meanwhile Matthew now had a dribble of brown muck coming out of this nose as the chocolate melted off the raisin. We didn't know if he was going to choke, or have trouble breathing or what and it was now passed his nap time so he was starting to want to drift off. For all we know it was him drifting off into unconsciousness so Margaret kept waking him up..... which pissed him off and made him even more grumpy.

We got to this doctors office and the doctor saw us fairly quickly. He couldn't see the raisin but thought it best for him to go straight to an Ear, Nose, Throat specialist to see if they could see it. It might have gone right down his throat but if it was still there it would cause an infection and that could be very nasty. So while his nurse was ringing through to the E,N and T people, Matthew was jumping round in the little room we were in. Then Margaret saw something on the floor, I picked it up and it was a nasty gooey messy that looked like it was probably at one point in time a raisin. So it looked like it has popped out while he jumped around.

But we still went to the E, N & T people so they could make sure it had all come out ( $25 co-pay ). They eventually saw us and sucked out what was left of the raisin from his nose...... Matthew did not like that at all. Hopefully it was enough discomfort to make him think twice about doing it again.

On the plus is, I played poker that night and made $17 that slightly offset the $39 chocolate raisin episode.