What are the worst things to accidently step on with barefeet?

@4meAndyou My daughter stuck one of them up her nose and I had to take her to a nose & throat doctor to get it removed. His suction machine was broken that morning and he had to use tools to remove it.

@cherokeepatti I remember that when very dry the spikes were as hard and sharp as wood. I feel very sorry, retroactively, for your daughter...😞

@4meAndyou we were sitting in the living room watching tv and her father said she put something up her nose. He thought it was a piece of rolled up cellophane from his cigarette package since she was playing with it. I didn’t have my glasses on so I didn’t see. I asked her what she put in her nose and she said “sticker”…the barb end was touching the end of her finger and she forgot and picked her nose. Well her father started getting upset and raised his voice and I told him to be quiet and brought her to the bedroom and asked her what she put in her nose and she said “sticker” again. It was in January and the weather had been nice enough to go for long walks and there were patches of grass burrs next to the roads, when a car would come down the road we’d step towards the ditch to be safe and I had a couple in the hem of my jeans. I got the flashlight and looked and couldn’t see a grass burr. Hardly slept that night and had to call her doctor the next morning. The receptionist asked me in a shreiky voice “How did that happen?” As though I did it to her 😂 then said I had to take her to a ear, nose & throat specialist.

@4meAndyou The good thing about watching the doctor remove the grass burr manually with tools is that I learned how to get things out of noses too. We went to Arbuckle Wilderness with my sister and her husband and the kids and her little girl put a piece of dry corn (bought a bucket of it to feed the animals) in her nose. Her father started getting kind of hysterical saying “Oh my God we’re going to have to go to the hospital because it’ll swell up and she’ll have to have surgery”. I told him to pull over and told him I had a pair of tweezers and could try to get it out with that. It didn’t open up enough to pull the corn out. So I asked him what kind of tools he had in his toolbox (he is a heat & air repairman). I asked for two small screwdrivers and he got them. Told him to gently put one in her nose and use the other one to pull the kernel out and he did and it worked. Then I told my sister “You made fun of my daughter when she stuck something in her nose and now yours did the same thing. If I hadn’t taken my daughter to a specialist and saw how he removed the grass burr I wouldn’t have known how to get the corn out of your daughter’s nose” She shut up and didn’t say a damn thing.

@cherokeepatti TBH, your sister is a worse a$$ than my former mother in law and HER sister. ANY adult who thinks it's okay to mock a child's pain is a monster, IMO.

@4meAndyou She is a narcissist but back then I didn’t know the word for it. I called her out on it. It was like her children were never going to do the silly things most all kids do.

@cherokeepatti It's sad that people like that exist in this world, isn't it. Just sad. Anyway, I have to go wash some dishes...talk to you later.

@4meAndyou Indeed. Mocking a child's pain is abusive. That, in [i]itself,[/i] is painful.

@PhoenixPhail she did worse than that and I had to stop going around her and a couple of other relatives after that and I mean for decades. It was cruel the way they were snickering when they found out my daughter had systemic lupus and were talking about it. That was it with me and tolerating any of their bullshit.

@cherokeepatti Their snickering when they found out your daughter had systemic lupus, is pure evil. Seriously, they need therapy.

@PhoenixPhail I had gone to the nursing home to visit my aunt and my father and sister were laughing and talking about my daughter having lupus and my aunt went along with it and was doing the same. I know it sounds horrible but that was the last time I went to the nursing home and I let that sister go sit with her. She was bleeding her checking account dry anyway asking for $ for various things and would return with a little fast food for her in exchange. Anyway it was a bad situation because I was having to run here and there for doctors and tests and prescriptions so many times that year and dealing with my daughter’s symptoms and trying to help my aunt. And then they crap on us that way. I was finished.

@cherokeepatti I don't blame you a bit. I would move on, as well. I hope your daughter is doing well. (hug)

@PhoenixPhail She didn’t really understand why I did it, that was the bad part. I tried to tell her how cruel they were acting about her illness and it just didn’t sink in. As sensitive as she is it would have hurt her so bad, I was trying to protect her from more stress.

@cherokeepatti I'm glad you protected her from more stress. It was the loving thing to do.

I wish I had as good a mom as you are. ❤️