Word: mucus
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...have to linger over the list of symptoms in that part of the chart to try to project them on to my offspring. The baby + phlegm cocktail is one of the most brutal for mothers. Once stricken, infant nasal passages are so small that any mucus makes their breathing sound like Darth Vader in the final stages of emphysema. You keep wishing: "if it only it could be me who has the cold, instead of her." And before you know it, presto...
...told him a joke involving mucus,” Keillor deadpanned to the crowd. “The timing was perfect.... I made our class intellectual exhale tapioca, great noodles of tapioca...
...without a full night's sleep, James Elliott curses at the sound of a banging spoon. Then he remembers why he listens for it in the first place: it means his mother Ella can't breathe. Leaping to her bedside, James grabs a suctioning device and calmly pulls the mucus from his mother's tracheotomy tube, as he has every two hours since Ella, 73, was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer in April. "I don't know what I'd do without him," Ella silently mouths. The tube, which enables her to breathe, has robbed her of her voice...