What goes in, must come out!

Yesterday Lucy got a new necklace that she let puppy wear while they took a nap. After she woke up, Lucy broke the necklace. I got her up and noticed she had a bead in her ear, so I got it right out. We picked up all the beads in her bed and threw them away.

Well, unfortunately there were still beads in her room that I didn't see. She must have found them though, because while we were at a wedding today we noticed another bead in her ear. This one was a little harder to get out but still not a big issue.

However, after her bath tonight she was messing with her right ear a bit and while Lucy and Mommy were playing a game, Lucy's Mommy thought she wasn't hearing as well as normal in that ear. We got out a flashlight and checked pretty thoroughly, sure enough we found another bead, this one was too far in for us to get out.

We paged the oncall doctor, but after waiting an hour without receiving a phone call, we went to the ER. We drove to St. Francis as we like that hospital better, but the waiting room was packed, so we took a chance and drove to Community South. There was no wait and we were in and out in 30 minutes after the doctor used water irrigation to float the bead out. Lucy is sleeping well now and was pretty good at the ER, having Shrek on the portable DVD player certainly helped.

Note: The bead is very small, just a couple millimeters across.

Below are some pictures from the wedding reception today. The bead is not visible. :)