Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Me, Squeamish?

Olivia came home from school today proudly displaying her first loose tooth.  She wiggled it with her tongue, then she wiggled it with her finger.  And I almost got sick.

I've cleaned and bandaged enough bloodied-up knees to start my own neighborhood triage unit.  When Brigham had a tracheostomy, I could suction all of the goobers out of his lungs.  And I could change out the trach tube.  I'm not talking about the inner cannula, although I did that, too.  I'm talking about pulling the whole thing out of his neck and putting a new one in the hole.  I'm not going to lie--it was freaky--and kind of gross, but I could do it.  So why is it, then, that I can't watch Olivia wiggling her loose tooth without feeling like my legs are turning to jello?


I couldn't even watch her wiggle it while I was taking this picture.  I closed my eyes.  What has happened to me?  Perhaps, after all these years, my brothers' squeamishness is rubbing off on me.

2 comments:

Melissa said...

Teeth freak me out! I make Bryan deal with all mouth related issues.

Lori Folkman said...

Hilarious Sally! Brace yourself--19 teeth to go! Maybe you should go back to school to become a dental assistant!