LT HOLLY: I'm headed uptown for a two-year-old
with a bead stuck in his nose.
This is a very common pediatric call.
This is the perfect age where exploration is everything
and they like to shove stuff in their noses.
62-49, I'm on scene.
Hi!
How are you?
What's going on, mama?
MOTHER: My two-year-old, he's complaining
that his nose is hurting.
If I look in his nose, he got beads, like bracelet beads.
I ended up getting one out, but then
when I looked back with a flashlight,
there's one like way back there.
LT HOLLY: Let me see.
MOTHER: It's this side.
It's so hard to see.
MOTHER: It's pink.
LT HOLLY: Mm-hmm.
Let me see something.
You feel that?
MOTHER: It's deep down.
Because I took one out.
LT HOLLY: Is that even a bead?
Or is that just his nose?
Actually.
MOTHER: It is.
LT HOLLY: But it's way--
MOTHER: Yeah.
It's way back here to the point where you can't even--
Get it out.
You can't even feel it.
Yeah.
How did you do that?
Can you blow your nose?
Can you blow real hard?
MOTHER: Can you blow your nose?
LT HOLLY: Do it.
Real hard.
MOTHER: Blow,
LT HOLLY: Blow.
Do it again.
Big one.
Mm.
Nothing but boogers.
At this point, my only other option
to keep him from being transported
is to try and use suction.
I don't have suction.
So at this point, I have to call an ambulance,
which is good because, you know, I can use their suction.
And if it comes out, then great.
And if not, then they can take him to the hospital,
whether we get it out.
Oh, look at you.
He's just like every other little boy.
He played shy for about two minutes
and then we were home free after that.
You ready?
Let's go see if we can suck this thing out.
[inaudible]
Hi, Perez!
Hello.
All right, buddy.
Hello, hello.
LT HOLLY: The problem is the bead is like to the left.
At least, I think.
Mama, the beads were pink, right?
MOTHER: Yeah, they were pink.
LT HOLLY: Yeah.
Now that you got the light right there
and he's laying straight back, maybe he doesn't
have any-- any more in there.
Can you breathe?
Breathe.
Breathe out of your nose.
Close your mouth.
Breathe.
Mama, that looks like his nose now that-- now that we're--
[inaudible] let mama see it.
PEREZ: You see that little pink?
Because look on this side and it's
the same kind of a similar color.
Yup.
Yeah.
Now that we got the light.
No, that's all right because they look like it to me too.
Do you want to take him just to be safe or you want him
to stay home?
Do you feel like it's stuck in there?
Do you feel like it's in there?
No?
I mean, you can always watch him.
You can follow up with your pediatrician.
All right.
Once we get him into the ambulance
and we're able to look at both sides in really good light,
there's no bead in there.
So, you know, I essentially just got a play date,
and that was fantastic.
All right, come on.
We were just kidding.
Let's go inside.
You ready?
Let's go.
All right, my man.
It's always the boys that stick beads in their nose.
Little girls don't even do that with their own beads.
Little boys always do.
Hopefully, I don't catch you no more.
Bye True!
Man, I thought that was a bead, though.
I got played.
Now he gets to stay home and possibly shove more
beads in his cute little nose.