Confessions of a germophobe

I'm a germophobe.  As a mother you can imagine how tricky it is when you have a lil perfect baby and all you can do is imagine all the germs surrounding him.  Then your little baby gets older and he's the origin of all germs.  Now you'd prolly think that changing diapers etc would be the worst for me, but it's not.  I can change diapers all day.  Puke?  no biggie.  But for some reason I HATE, I repeat, HATE any by-product of the nose.  So you can imagine how fun I have when he has a cold and is constantly oozing out stuff.  When he was younger and he had nose issues and we had to use those awful nose-sucking things, I'd ALWAYS call for code.  If I did it I'd start dry-heaving.  I eventually had to just deal and start taking care of it myself cause I couldn't stare at it all day.  My favorite, and by favorite- I mean it fills me with rage and disgust, is when he sneezes at point blank range into my face.....when my mouth is open.  It's pretty much like this:




Sometimes it's hard to be a mom-it means allowing someone else to do things to you that you'd NEVER let anyone else do.