How close was it?

  • Unimalion
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    61 year ago

    When I was a kid I put a yellow cherry pit up my nose while my family and I were on a bus. I remember trying to dig it out, but pushing it deeper every time I did until I started sneezing uncontrollably. By this point I was crying, but it was so far up that nobody could see it and thought I was lying. The bus driver stopped doing his route and took us to the nearest hospital. They were able to find it and 3 nurses held me down while the doctor stuck some medical pliers up my nose to pull it out. After wards the doctor said that had it been 1 centimeter deeper I would have asphyxiated to death and yelled at my parents for letting me have small object.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      11 year ago

      How can putting something up your nose asphyxiate you? It can’t block the airways, right? It would have to get to you through.

      • @ridethisbike
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        31 year ago

        I think the doc was trying to scare the kid and parents