So, today I have a very unhappy 4 year old boy. He cried on and off all last night, while digging into or covering his ear. He also kept telling me that “his neck hurts.” So, since my hubby currently has a nasty case of strep throat or worse and is on antibiotics, I figured we’ve been blessed with the same in our little monkey. The Dr actually gasped when she looked at his ear and said it’s horribly infected and his throat doesn’t look great either. Yay!! Sick kids, or boys, are so much fun (yes, by “boys” I’m including my hubby!! Teehee! He’s actually really really sick, I just like to tease…and, no, that does not run in my family, neither inherited nor learned, at all!!) My husband seems to always skip over the small bugs and just dives into the major sicknesses. Who wants a cold when you can have pneumonia or tonsillitis??!! His throat is so so disgusting right now, I mean it’s so swollen you can see the swelling from the outside, literally. He has hardly eaten in 3 days, because the inside of his throat has nasty, gross, puss-type loveliness going on (that is truly the closest I can get to describing it without throwing up a little in my mouth…). And, why do I share this detail with you, you ask?? Well, because my darling hubby thought it’d be a good idea to take a photo of the back of his throat! And, of course, because cameras on our phones are so spectacularly good at capturing everything in high def’, I got the honour of seeing the lovely situation in far far more glorious detail than I wanted!! Seriously, who does that!!?? He asks me if I want to see a photo and Bam!! Can I please change my answer here?? No!! I do not want to see a photo! Of course, he also showed our kids and oldest daughter’s friend and probably the neighbours and, well, it’s likely that if you went to his Facebook page you could also have the pleasure of viewing the nastiness first hand. I know that you can release inner emotions and work through trauma through writing. So, I decided that maybe if I shared this lovely little snapshot of my day, perhaps I’d be able to purge the memory of that photo from my mind. FOREVER!! Unfortunately, however, the opposite seems to be happening. That is, instead of releasing this image from my memory forever, it is just adding hyper-focus.
Huh…I guess the whole “writing to work through and release emotions” thing isn’t true 100% of the time. I know I now carry an even more vivid picture in my mind…Well, at least I’m not the only one!!

Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!