Mich and the Bead
Remember the story of Gipir and Labongo in p3 history?
I don't remember the details too well but I think I can create something close to the original story.
Gipir and Labongo were neighbours and they spent a lot of time together, I believe they were both hunters. One day while Gipir was away Labongo decided to borrow his favourite spear (without asking) and go hunting. While he was out there he saw a juicy elephant and decided to make a kill of it, the spear hit the target alright but unfortunately the elephant made a way with the spear in his side and Labongo was not able to find the animal.
Aha!, he had some explaining to do, when Gipir got back home his favourite spear was missing and Labongo had something to do with it. He of course explained himself but Gipir would have nothing of it. He insisted that Labongo go back into the forest and find his spear.
Tough!! but well he had to do it otherwise things would get really bad for him. Well he braved it and went looking for the elephant and found the spear.
Life went on after that but obviously their friendship was strained. Then as things always happen, this time Gipir's kid was playing with Labongo's child and it swallowed one of Labongo's beautiful beads.
Labongo gets to know about it and tables turned, he assured Gipir and insisted that he gets his bead back. Now I'm getting to the gist of my story.
I don't know what Gipir was thinking but because he was under so much pressure and Labongo would have nothing less, he got his kid, diced the stomach open and got out the bead. Gave it to Labongo and said, 'there, you want your bead?, you can have it!".
Now I'm just wondering why he couldn't wait, that bead could have come out another way you know?! but anyway that was the end of their friendship.
Legend has is that they packed their bags and went separate ways and that is how we get the tribes of the Acholi and Langi. Ok, ok, it's something like that, this is just my modified version.
And now to why I had to tell this story, I'm sure every parent dreads the moment their kid puts one of those small things; beads, stones, g.nuts e.t.c, into their ears, nose and the like.
We had our share of it recently when some time last week...
It was bed time and Sam was putting Mich to bed. Mich showed Sam a bead, and said "see I have got the thing that people put on and they look nice" and Sam replied something to the effect that it was for girls and they put it in their hair. After reading him a story, praying and saying goodnight, he walked out of the room. Before long we heard Mich calling "daddy", when Sam went in he said, "the thing that girls put on their heads is in my nose".
I was in the sitting room when Sam tells me, "I think we have a problem here, Mich stuck a bead up his nose". Obviously there is a bit of panic and people are holding their breath.
I check it out and it was at a weird angle, there was no way we were going to get it out easy. Meanwhile when Sam would tell Mich to sneeze, he would sniff instead and that wasn't helping. So I get on the Internet to see if there are any solutions, meanwhile Sam is calling the emergency line. The Internet basically said, these things happen, if you can't get it out, see a doctor, the doctor we spoke to said, he should be fine for the night the bead won't go further back, if he can breath let him go to bed and we'll remove it tomorrow when you come in.
We didn't want to complicate things by trying so we sent Mich to bed, for some reason I knew Mich wouldn't sleep because now he knew he had done something crazy and the bead was in his nose.
After a while I got an idea of trying to remove the bead, I got one of the plastic toothpicks, asked Mich to lie still and tried to remove it. Amazingly it came out after two moves, no struggles, no crying or discomfort and we were done. Now that was absolutely God, because all through this time I was praying for wisdom and I know he guided me. Phew!
May be someday I will tell you of the time my brother woke up and had a live cockroach in his ear. I will not disclose which brother though but I will tell you how a wise old man removed it.
I don't remember the details too well but I think I can create something close to the original story.
Gipir and Labongo were neighbours and they spent a lot of time together, I believe they were both hunters. One day while Gipir was away Labongo decided to borrow his favourite spear (without asking) and go hunting. While he was out there he saw a juicy elephant and decided to make a kill of it, the spear hit the target alright but unfortunately the elephant made a way with the spear in his side and Labongo was not able to find the animal.
Aha!, he had some explaining to do, when Gipir got back home his favourite spear was missing and Labongo had something to do with it. He of course explained himself but Gipir would have nothing of it. He insisted that Labongo go back into the forest and find his spear.
Tough!! but well he had to do it otherwise things would get really bad for him. Well he braved it and went looking for the elephant and found the spear.
Life went on after that but obviously their friendship was strained. Then as things always happen, this time Gipir's kid was playing with Labongo's child and it swallowed one of Labongo's beautiful beads.
Labongo gets to know about it and tables turned, he assured Gipir and insisted that he gets his bead back. Now I'm getting to the gist of my story.
I don't know what Gipir was thinking but because he was under so much pressure and Labongo would have nothing less, he got his kid, diced the stomach open and got out the bead. Gave it to Labongo and said, 'there, you want your bead?, you can have it!".
Now I'm just wondering why he couldn't wait, that bead could have come out another way you know?! but anyway that was the end of their friendship.
Legend has is that they packed their bags and went separate ways and that is how we get the tribes of the Acholi and Langi. Ok, ok, it's something like that, this is just my modified version.
And now to why I had to tell this story, I'm sure every parent dreads the moment their kid puts one of those small things; beads, stones, g.nuts e.t.c, into their ears, nose and the like.
We had our share of it recently when some time last week...
It was bed time and Sam was putting Mich to bed. Mich showed Sam a bead, and said "see I have got the thing that people put on and they look nice" and Sam replied something to the effect that it was for girls and they put it in their hair. After reading him a story, praying and saying goodnight, he walked out of the room. Before long we heard Mich calling "daddy", when Sam went in he said, "the thing that girls put on their heads is in my nose".
I was in the sitting room when Sam tells me, "I think we have a problem here, Mich stuck a bead up his nose". Obviously there is a bit of panic and people are holding their breath.
I check it out and it was at a weird angle, there was no way we were going to get it out easy. Meanwhile when Sam would tell Mich to sneeze, he would sniff instead and that wasn't helping. So I get on the Internet to see if there are any solutions, meanwhile Sam is calling the emergency line. The Internet basically said, these things happen, if you can't get it out, see a doctor, the doctor we spoke to said, he should be fine for the night the bead won't go further back, if he can breath let him go to bed and we'll remove it tomorrow when you come in.
We didn't want to complicate things by trying so we sent Mich to bed, for some reason I knew Mich wouldn't sleep because now he knew he had done something crazy and the bead was in his nose.
After a while I got an idea of trying to remove the bead, I got one of the plastic toothpicks, asked Mich to lie still and tried to remove it. Amazingly it came out after two moves, no struggles, no crying or discomfort and we were done. Now that was absolutely God, because all through this time I was praying for wisdom and I know he guided me. Phew!
May be someday I will tell you of the time my brother woke up and had a live cockroach in his ear. I will not disclose which brother though but I will tell you how a wise old man removed it.
Give me a bead over a roach any day!!! That's the love of a mother in action!!
ReplyDeleteI yesterday caught up with Mary’s blogs, and may be she could have a go at training as an “Ear, Nose, and Throat’ (ENT) specialist (or Otorhinolalyngologist); but she will have to do the basic MB ChB first; and (at least in the American setting) she is still young enough to do so! As for now, congratulations on a delicate OP on Mich well performed!! When I come over, I will share with you my own “object in the nose” experience at age 7 years (i.e. sometime in 1957 …..)
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