So tomorrow is the first day of your second trimester exams.
The plan was to tutor you incessantly over the weekend. Plans changed when you went home from the clinic last Friday. As much as I wanted to push you to study your lessons, I have to give in to anything that will comfort you. Sleep and long naps are acceptable. But I have to give in to your Netflix needs as well as coloring print outs from the computer that I myself provided.
While you were having fever this morning, I keep smelling you even if you haven't took a bath for two straight days. You smell as if you were my baby of long ago. I know that scent. And you had that scent this morning. I can't stop sniffing you.
You have a bad cold after episodes of cough for the past three days already. We couldn't find the Salinase bottle that was our solution to your clogged nose. I let you sniff the Vicks vaporub but it was no use. You keep using the tissue which by the way, you finished one roll today and that made you feel bad about wasting one tissue roll. Well, Anak, that's what those tissue is for. I knew your nose was clogged not because of the mucous but because your nasal walls were all swollen.
And so the only way I can think of is dip your tissue before you stuck it inside your nose. You felt great because it was so cool. I told you though, that I am the only one allowed to do that for your. You are not even allowed to do that for yourself because I don't want you to "burn" any exposed nerve cell in your nose. Well, your Lola Tita "burnt" her olfactory nerves with those nasal Vicks and now she cannot taste her food properly.
I cannot explain in detail how that happened. Just believe you me.
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