On Sunday afternoon, Sadie came to me and said her earring felt too tight. I looked, and the back of her ear had dried blood on it. I asked Jimmy to have a look and he said “Oh, it looks like the backing of your earring fell off.” I knew there was no way her earring would stay in without the backing, so I prodded at it a little and saw the the back was completely inside her ear lobe. Ugh.

She was really hesitant to let us touch her ear because it was tender. We both tried, but had no luck getting the back of her earring out of her ear. It was stuck. We had church that night, and I asked Sadie if my sister could look at it. Sadie adores her aunt Hannah and really trusts her, so we had Hannah have a look.

Hannah also tried to poke around and at this point, Sadie’s earring back started to come out of the front of her ear and was bleeding. We abandoned the mission and I called Sadie’s doctor on our way home from church. They advised going to the ER to have the backing removed ASAP to avoid infection. (more…)