{"id":3328,"date":"2008-12-20T23:26:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T06:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2008-12-22T07:07:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T14:07:23","slug":"rambo-would-have-cried-like-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/20\/rambo-would-have-cried-like-a-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Rambo would have cried like a baby."},"content":{"rendered":"

“Mommy, can you get me something to read while I sit on the toilet?”<\/p>\n

“You need something to read?”<\/p>\n

“Yes.”<\/p>\n

“Like, a magazine?”<\/p>\n

“No.\u00c2\u00a0 A book.\u00c2\u00a0 Can you get the one in your bedroom that is about ducks?”<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Before you go to snap judgments…<\/p>\n

That Little Man, the one who wants to read about ducks while sitting on the throne, has silently endured an ear infection so bad that the pressure burst through the membrane of his ear drum and started leaking fluid out of his ear.\u00c2\u00a0 I noticed the dried fluid when we came home from his Christmas party Friday morning and within 30 seconds, had the doctor’s office on the phone.\u00c2\u00a0 Any thoughts on how painful it must be to have your ear filled with pussy fluid* with pressure so strong that it breaks through an organ?\u00c2\u00a0 (Okay, so probably that membrane isn’t an organ.\u00c2\u00a0 But wow, shouldn’t this at least be memorable in the short-term?\u00c2\u00a0 Cause an ‘ouch,’ maybe?)\u00c2\u00a0 I found photographic evidence of it from earlier that morning, from photos I took during the holiday party:<\/p>\n

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So, just to be clear: men who like to read about ducks on the can are tough.\u00c2\u00a0 T-O-U-G-H.<\/p>\n

Oh, did I mention?\u00c2\u00a0 He wore a red flashing Rudolph nose from the party all afternoon, including through the entire trip to the doctor’s office — thoroughly mortifying the two teenage boys that he sat beside in the waiting room — and delighting everyone that saw him.\u00c2\u00a0 You know, while his little 5-year old head was leaking pussy fluid*.<\/p>\n

That’s my guy.\u00c2\u00a0 Keepin’ it real.<\/p>\n

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(Last photo by Paul, who took the photo.\u00c2\u00a0 Photo by Paul showing Will wearing the stocking on his head, taken by Paul, who took the photo.\u00c2\u00a0 Just in case: that last photo?\u00c2\u00a0 Paul took it.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks, Paul!)<\/p>\n

* Meagan kindly noted my use of the phrase “pussy fluid” (not once, but TWICE) in this post and though it would totally be the right thing to, um, watch my phrase-ology, I just can’t bring myself to change it.\u00c2\u00a0 I just can’t stop laughing at myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Mommy, can you get me something to read while I sit on the toilet?” “You need something to read?” “Yes.” “Like, a magazine?” “No.\u00c2\u00a0 A book.\u00c2\u00a0 Can you get the one in your bedroom that is about ducks?” — Before you go to snap judgments… That Little Man, the one who wants to read about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[98],"tags":[137,84,138,90,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3332,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}