One of the lovely side effects I’m experiencing is, I don’t really know what to call it, but instead of my nose containing snot, it’s more like blood clots. Which reminds me of one time, on my ride to high school, waiting to pay the toll on the Whitestone bridge, the guy driving the van I was in cut someone off because he felt they cut him off. It was really aggressive and soon after he was finished doing his maneuvers, we heard the crash of a bottle breaking on the roof of the van. Someone threw a bottle at the van. Then, while we were still digesting that information, a woman came up to the van (this is on the approach to the toll booths on a highway, you understand) opened the sliding side door, and started yelling at us. She was I think from the Caribbean and the only thing we understood her to say in her rant was “blood clot.” I’m assuming that is some strong derogatory phrase but, obviously, that woman was really upset and really scary. Luckily we were able to shut the door on her and get the heck out of there.
But I digress. My blood clots are in my nose - not people I dislike. I remember when I was younger being told not to pick my nose but it was never specified that that meant not in public - I thought just don’t pick it. I never understood that and for years picked my nose in secret at night in my bed. I thought I would be found out since the shear mass of material I was digging out would start to pile up and eventually fill my room and my entire house. But that never happened.
Maybe I’m wrong but that’s the only way to get that crap out of there - to pick it out with your fingers. So, being a nose picker, I now have the pleasure of removing bloody masses from my nose which then causes my nose to bleed and gets blood all over my fingers, and, I guess, my nose. This isn’t good for me since my low platelet count means I don’t clot my blood very well. Blood clot! But so far the nose bleeds haven’t lasted for very long.
So a dirty job just got a lot dirtier. And every morning, I make sure to rinse the blood off my fingers.
