The Squeamish Beware

Although few admit it, I know that I am not the only one who thinks it's kind of cool to find a yellow glob of mucus in the tissue after coughing or blowing your nose. Something very satisfying about such productivity. But it's not nearly as cool as the time that a greenish and bloody ball of disease came out of my nose at the end of a battle with tonsillitis. Through that entire sickness, I kept checking on the size of the white globule in the back of my throat and wondering, where the heck will that growth go when I'm better? Turns out, a sneeze can loosen a globule's grip, and when you blow your nose . . . voila! Proof that you are on the road to better health! I admit, I thought about keeping the evidence in a jar, but that's just weird. Instead, I just told everyone I knew about it. Nothing as fascinating as that happening in my body as I near the end of this cold, but it does bring back fond memories.