And the nose has it....

Ah yes.

About 6 weeks ago Melly comes running from her room in a bit of distress with blood coming from her nostrils. With her inability to tell us what she's done we had a look in her nose as best we could and summized there was nothing up there.

Yeh. You guessed it. We were wrong :-(

I had last Thursday and Friday off so I could play with the kids on their school holidays. A day where I sleep in and eat breakfast late, then laze around doing pretty much nothing all day. But no, Lynda kept compaining about the "foul smell" coming from Melanie.

"I'm sure there's something in her nose. We're going to get to the bottom of this today." Lynda says.

Yeh, so my holiday........... ended 10:00am Thursday.

First comes the local doctor's appointment. There's the obligatory couple of hours wait. I mind Ben while Lynda takes Melanie to the local doctor. Well "Doctor A" wasn't much use. But wrote a referral to take her to the Mater Chilidren's hospital.

So, we drop Ben at the Grandparents and head up to the hospital and sit in Children's casualty. We sit patiently, amuzing Melanie while trying to subconsciously avoid the very sick little girl next to us with Meningitis.

Eventualy we get seen some time around 4pm between the Mesozoic period and the Cretaceous period. She was a nice Doctor, but after a quick look up the nostrils she says there's nothing up there.

Melanie by this stage was taking offence to having large insrtuments
stuck up her nose all day.

Do doctors actually realise how scarey they are to kids? When you cannot explain to your child what's going on Melanie was getting justifiably scared.

So "Nice Doctor B" organises for Lynda to come back on Monday and see the ENT (Ear Nose and Throat) specialist.

Along comes Monday and Lynda has everything organised with her parents to mind Ben and off she goes back to the Mater hospital again to see the Ear Nose and Throat specialist.

Low and behold. "Nice doctor C" says...

Yep there's a lot of something up there. It's up really high and it needs to come out. We need to book her in for surgery this Friday.

Yay! Lynda was right all along. Mother knows best!!! Ha!

So that's it for now. To be continued. We'll see what this Friday brings. It's back to the Mater for a third time for what the smart people in the medical professoinal have affectionately termed "Scheduled Surgery to remove foreign object from sinus cavity of Melanie Wade"