{"id":4491,"date":"2012-09-21T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/?p=4491"},"modified":"2012-09-20T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T19:57:09","slug":"tissues-snot-suckers-and-other-miracles-of-modern-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/tissues-snot-suckers-and-other-miracles-of-modern-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Tissues, Snot Suckers, and Other Miracles of Modern Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NasalAspirator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4493\" title=\"Nasal aspirator\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NasalAspirator.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NasalAspirator.jpg 320w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/NasalAspirator-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a terrible cold. I&#8217;m all stuffed up and blowing my nose. A lot. If I forget to blow my nose, I start talking like dis. Bery hard to uderstad. So I am very thankful for an advance of modern science often taken for granted.<\/p>\n<p>The humble facial tissue.<\/p>\n<p>If it weren&#8217;t for tissues, I&#8217;d be laundering handkerchiefs laden with nasal excretions, too gross to describe on this blog, while simultaneously trying to blow my nose. See, I have to constantly blow my nose, or it gets so stuffed up I can&#8217;t breath when my mouth is closed. Which happens all to often when I&#8217;m concentrating hard on writing.<\/p>\n<p>Which got me to thinking about babies.<\/p>\n<p>Babies are on my mind these days because I&#8217;m going to be a grandma any day now. <em>If you weren&#8217;t aware of that development, you must be new to this blog since I mention it almost every day. So let me extend a hey-howdy, hearty welcome to you, first time visitor!<\/em> Thinking about babies made me think about another advance of modern medicine every young mother needs.<\/p>\n<p>The snot sucker.<\/p>\n<p>Also known as a baby nasal syringe. Or nasal aspirator. Whatever moniker you give it, the snot suckers is an invaluable tool for: removing disgusting boogers from noses so stuffed up they can&#8217;t breathe when their mouths are closed, babies too young to hold a tissue and blow their own noses, babies too young to obey the command to blow when a tissue is placed over the nose, and babies so young their default mode is to gum tissues to death.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if you&#8217;ve got a baby with boogers, you need a snot sucker.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babycenter.com\/0_how-to-use-a-bulb-syringe-or-nasal-aspirator-to-clear-a-stuf_482.bc\" target=\"_blank\">directions on how to use the syringe<\/a> or you could have boogers and snot going every which way, a prospect almost as disgusting as laundering mucus-laden cloth handkerchiefs. And with that thought, the time has come to end today&#8217;s tribute to miracles of modern science. Because, for the most squeamish among us, any more details about nasal excretions may require the use of a third miracle of modern medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Smelling salts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a terrible cold. I&#8217;m all stuffed up and blowing my nose. A lot. If I forget to blow my nose, I start talking like dis. Bery hard to uderstad. So I am very thankful for an advance of modern science often taken for granted. The humble facial tissue. 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