Canny Konks and Happy Hooters

by Shelley White

Nina, Norma, Nellie too
Were triplets, ten years old
The tricks that they got up to
Were multiplied threefold.

Nina was a naughty girl
She had an annoying trait
She constantly would pick her nose
And nosebleeds were her fate!

Norma knew her hay fever
Caused her blocked and stuffy nose
Sometimes blood would trickle down
After giving long hard blows.

Nellie niggled Nicholas
Her nose received a thump
The consequences of this was
The blood was seen to pump!

Their Little's area is where
Their nosebleeds tend to start
It's on the nasal septum
Nostrils' middle harder part.

Blood vessels here are fragile
Can rupture easily -
Sometimes for no apparent reason -
In children most commonly.

For their nosebleeds simple first aid
Can usually stop the bleeding
A cold compress round nose and face
Is all they will be needing.

They should sit up and lean forward
If they're not feeling faint
Otherwise lie on their side
That's best for such complaint.

They should pinch their nose's lower end
With a finger and a thumb
Completely block their nostrils
Which may go slightly numb!

Usually if light pressure's applied
For a quarter of an hour
On their nose's fleshy end
Its leak they'll overpower.

Once they've got the bleed to stop
They shouldn't pick or try blow out
The blood left in the nostrils
Or one more bleed could spout.

If the bleeding's heavy
Lasts twenty minutes or more
Or if it is recurring
They should knock on doctor's door.

The triplets never thumbed their nose
At this first aid advice
They nobbled nasal 'nnoyances
Which cleared up in a trice.

Nina, Norma, Nellie too
Very soon were nosebleed free
The upsets to their schnozzles
Were controlled easily!