Mic-key B-gone
Yesterday Nolan was playing with some children who live in Mimi and Dindin’s neighborhood. At one point one of the girls, Emily, picked something off the floor and asked me “what’s this?”. I about dropped the computer when I realized it was his mic-e button, the balloon had burst and it had simply fallen out. The openings can close quite quickly, sometimes as fast as 30 minutes so I attempted to get that button in just to keep the hole open enough to put a replacement button in but I couldn’t get it to go. After some calls to his Pediatrician we decided to drive home and try to get a new button in there (if we had one, we weren’t sure). At home we did find a new one as well as some lidocane and lubricant to make it easier for everyone but we still weren’t able to get it to go in.
The next step would be either to go to the hospital ER and have them attempt to stretch the hole little by little until the button went in OR take the hint and just leave it out. Since we hadn’t used it for feeding since Nov. 2007 and we really didn’t want to spend the evening in the ER (for all our sakes) we decided to leave it out. This is something we had been wanting for a long time but we still felt (feel) a but panicky about that safety valve being gone, there is a long list of “what if’s” one can get trapped by. But it is also exciting, we have never known Nolan with a object free belly and now it is clear for full on zerberts and rubbing. It is bizarre to have nothing sticking out of his belly, kind of like the first time he was tube free in the hospital, it was strange to be able to just pick him up without having to rearrange and be careful.
And so the next adventure begins!
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Give him a zerbert from me!
I’m jealous. I wish there wasn’t anything sticking out of my belly. Oh wait, the thing sticking out IS my belly! Now if I could only find my feet…
Does the hole just close up by itself without stitches? That’s pretty clever whoever invented that one.
Also very glad to hear that you found a preschool you like.
Love to all, peterypaco