Nurse, Earring, and Felicity

So being a pediatric nurse has it’s advantages and disadvantages.

For example, let’s pretend that when the girls and I got ready to go swimming, I set my earrings down at a level that were within reach of Felicity. And perhaps I turn away for a moment and then look down and see an earring in Felicity’s mouth. I take it out of her mouth and go to look for it’s mate, not being able to find it. Theoretically my conclusion would be that Felicity swallowed it. And let’s say in this example, the earring is not a little tiny one, but a BIG one, with a ball hanging and a pointy end that could potentially puncture internal organs.

The advantage of this example is that I could sideswipe the ER entirely and call up the docs I work with. “Hey Dr. O, can you put in an order for an Xray?” I then go and get the the Xray and Felicity has apparently not swallowed the earring. The disadvantage to this example is that once again my colleges have reaffirmed that I am a worry wort mother, the kind we all try to avoid.

btw, if this example were to be real, I would still be down an earring.