I read in the newspaper today (remember those?), that people who pick their noses are more likely to get Alzheimer’s. I am not making this up. Apparently, introducing germs into the nose triggers the brain to produce betas-amyloid as defense. An abundance of beta-amyloid is believed to be the leading cause of Alzheimer’s.
So beware, don’t do it, no matter how tempted you may be. Even if you have COVID or are getting over COVID. Or never had COVID. Or like my ex-boyfriend, don’t believe in COVID.
My mother-in-law used to pick her nose. Then she’d make dinner. I was disgusted. But you know, living in a dry part of the country, the nose is a dry place to be. Not like a humid part of the world, where your boogars come out easily when you blow. In the desert, those suckers are in there, and it’s hard to pry them loose.
You’ve heard the old saying, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose. It’s true. I mean, why would you? It would be gross.
If you’re a parent, you know that babies can’t blow their noses, so you have to use that little suction thingie to suck out their nose goo. It’s disgusting but necessary. You can teach them to blow, but it’s hard to do that before they have language skills.
Back to Alzheimer’s. I just rewatched all the episodes of This Is Us, six whole seasons. In Season 5, it is revealed that Rebecca, the mom and main character played by Mandy Moore, is headed toward Alzheimer’s with her mild cognitive impairment. I started watching on Hulu with commercials, but one episode in Season Four had no sound, so I switched over to Netflix with no commercials. It makes it hard to go to the bathroom with no commercials, but I guess that’s what the pause button is for. Live-streaming sure is different from the old way of watching TV.
I came to live-streaming late in the game. I was still getting those Netflix DVDs in the mail, mostly because I didn’t have internet at my beach house. That all changed in 2020, when I thought my contractor was going to do some work down there, and his girlfriend would be with him, working remotely. Not possible without internet, so I got it for him.
Then the pandemic happened, and he never did the work. He moved to Grass Valley, got married, then retired from his contracting career. Oh, well. At least I have internet now at the beach house.
And thanks to my kids, I switched from DVDs in the mail to live-streaming. It’s hard to get random old movies that way. The DVDs were the way to go for them. When Netflix stopped mailing DVDs, the company let those customers keep the last ones they rented and even mailed them some extras. I switched over a few years too soon.
What a rambling post today.
Don’t pick your nose!
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