Comments on Peaches & Coconuts: Up your nose with a rubber hose

There is an urban legend - I assume it's a leg...

2009-06-12T10:20:00.501-04:00

There is an urban legend - I assume it's a legend because it happened to a friend of a friend - about a woman who, a week after a particularly fine Chow Mein, began to complain of a rank smell. She began to pull the house apart looking the source but to no avail. This continued for another week until she couldn't stand it any longer and sought medical advice. The healthcare professional donned gloves and after a moment's rooting withdrew a rotting piece of chicken from her nose...

Sorry: I meant to proofread: EACH nostril.

2009-06-08T21:57:44.788-04:00

Sorry: I meant to proofread: EACH nostril.

My mother stuck 8 green peas in her nose when she ...

2009-06-08T21:56:59.898-04:00

My mother stuck 8 green peas in her nose when she was a child -- 4 in wahc nostril. One after the other the peas kept emerging.

But I am with you Deborah: the more I hear about nasal passages getting wilfully blocked, the more I feel the need to breathe and blow like a crazy stallion through both my nostrils. ;-)

You know Runt candies? Yeah, I stuck a lime Runt u...

2009-06-08T12:05:55.160-04:00

You know Runt candies? Yeah, I stuck a lime Runt up my nose...in high school. I couldn't get it out, panicked and blew it right at my English teacher's feet during a lecture. Oddly, I felt more pleased myself than embarrassed.

EEWWW!!! I'm squealing with disgusted delight...

2009-06-03T19:28:18.078-04:00

EEWWW!!! I'm squealing with disgusted delight! Thanks so much for sharing these hilarious and horrifying accounts of nose fiddling.

My youngest niece put a bean up her nose... she ha...

2009-06-03T16:55:14.080-04:00

My youngest niece put a bean up her nose... she had been complaining and school and the teacher was about the call the doctor when the school's principal called the teacher and my niece to her office and said... "ja, not a new one..."
When she took it out they noticed the bean had already started germinating...

I did actually try blowing -- perhaps too gently, ...

2009-06-03T16:53:41.994-04:00

I did actually try blowing -- perhaps too gently, though -- the blueberry (of the dried, raisin-like variety) out of her nose. I think I got some movement, but not enough. Preferring to chew off my left arm than take a child to the ER, I even tried to ... wait for it ... suck it out. I got something, but it wasn't the blueberry (ew!).

It took forceps, tweezers and three of us pinning her down to get that sucker out. Is it odd that I kind of wish I'd answered "yes" when the doc asked me if I wanted to keep it? It would have made a nice visual for your blog.

And, for those other children you mentioned: how on earth would one snort a toy soldier or a Lincoln Log?

Our A., who I truly believed to be too mature and ...

2009-06-03T15:54:32.798-04:00

Our A., who I truly believed to be too mature and intelligent (wink) for the up the nose phenom, recently stuck a bead up his nose at preschool. Luckily, a teacher who is widely regarded as the nasal extraction professional at the YMCA, was present and on scene in an instant to remove it. He told me later that the bead in question "flew up" his nose... amazing how that happens. :)

A childhood friend posted a pussy willow up her no...

2009-06-03T15:44:23.953-04:00

A childhood friend posted a pussy willow up her nose once. For some reason that one kills me. And a different childhood friend was taken to the doctor because of his increasingly bad breath. They discovered a rusty nail in one of his sinuses.