But I'm curious, do you have any questions for me? Some of you ask questions in the comments, which I always enjoy. They either get me thinking, or they make me smile because they are already topics I plan to discuss and I'm like, "Great minds think alike, baby!"
So I'll leave this open today. Is there anything, anything at all, you wonder about?
Ask away, child. Ask away. Feel free to ask anonymously too. I'll answer in another post later.
1. Is there anything about your OCD that you'd miss if you woke up tomorrow and were suddenly cured?
ReplyDelete2. Can you feel ANY effect from those medications? Are they helping at all?
3. How do you feel about natural cleaners (like vinegar instead of bleach)?
4. Did you worry about using a lot of harsh cleansers while you were pregnant?
5. Do you prefer original scent Purell or the green "with aloe" Purell? :)
6. Do you use ketchup/mustard packets when you're at a restaurant? Or do you disinfect them first?
7. Cloth napkins at restaurants - stressful?
8. I could ask a bunch more (I'm a question MACHINE!), but I'll stop there. :)
What about people who want to shake hands? Do you go all Doc Holiday and say "Forgive me if I don't shake hands" or just suffer and wash up after?
ReplyDeleteAlso, how about touch screens in public? ATM's or order screens or whatever? Those are totally disgusting.
Janice
The (not so) Special Mother
Oh, and guess what? The little scrambled up word thing you have to enter in order to post a comment? I like to try and make real words out of them. That comment I just posted was "dicic." Sounds like an STD! Ha! It made my day!
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The (not so) Special Mother
I think of questions at the most random moments and of course I can't remember any of them right now. Most of them are "I wonder what Jo would do in this situation". Basically I might as well just pull out my "WWJD?" bracelet from high school and replace 'Jesus' with 'Jo'. (Going to hell now...)
ReplyDeleteI am totally on board with Megan, in the moment I am always all What would Jo do? haha. Then I forget and move on. Daily I work with people from shelter's, people who reak of B.O, live with bed bugs, haven't had a shower in weaks and I always think about you while obsessively purrel my hands and lysol wipe down the public phone we provide hahaha. I think about how I am around illness all the time but rarely get sick and how I have been doing this for 10 years, and how I must have a built a tolerance for those viruses I come into contact with, cause I somehow rarely catch em...
ReplyDeleteThen I think, but the hygeine hypothesis is total bunk, remember, Jo said haha.
Ok now a question: Did you nurse your babies? Did you have to sanitize your breast before latching your baby on? How did you handle nursing in public. I would think that nursing would actually make it easier to handle germs then with bottle, were bacteria creeps in every nook and cranny (I know it does with my sippy cups anyhow, Evangeline never took a bottle ever)
ReplyDeleteHow did you manage potty training with your oldest daughter? Did she have any poo accident's you had to deal with? (My friend had to throw her daughter's pantie out when she pooed her pants at Boston Pizza, she WAS NOT carrying those filthy things around with her.
hahahha. I totally need to start selling What Would Jo Do bracelets. Someone else mentioned those one time too--Carrie I think? You guys are good. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm with Megan & Momma here...I think of questions when I'm actually doing something (you know, like putting on rental shoes at a bowling alley) & then have a moment of "I wonder if Jo can do this, or how she deals with this situation?" I apparently have an inquisitive mind, because one of my closest friends recently married a wonderful lady who happens have muscle atrophy in her legs from a polio vaccine reaction as a kid. She's a totally amazing person who doesn't let anything get in her way--she drives, she just recently had a kid & didn't use a wheelchair until the last month or so (and even then, only around the house)...hopefully it's not weird but I just find personal adaptations to "disabilities", whether they be a disorder like OCD or a phobia or an actual physical issue, really interesting and a testament to the human evolution.
ReplyDeleteAnd then...people like Kim Kardashian come along...and I feel all hope for our race is doomed. DOOOOOOOOOMED.
Do you worry about MRSA? That is the kind of stuff I worry about most for me and my kids, more than random colds or just the grossness of what other people have touched.
ReplyDeleteTwo things:
ReplyDelete#1, a question: once your baby is no longer a baby do you think your OCD will improve since a lot of it seems to stem from worry over her gettin gsick?
#2, my toilet overflowed today and I had to clean a lot of terd water up and it was AWFUL. I am glad it happened to me instead of you. that is all.
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