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However do you do it?

What holds you there so tight?

The fact that you are sitting there

Shows I'm doing something it right.

The white and shiny basin

Provides you with no hold

So however do you cling to it

Like a drowning person, bold.

The water flow increases

Like a waterfall so high

And still I see you clinging there

I cannot understand why

Only those with damaged lungs

Will know what I'm about

Watching what I've just coughed up

Disappearing down the spout.

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Pantani profile image
Pantani

You got me there Don until the last 3 lines I thought it was a spider.

πŸ˜ƒπŸ‘

Katinka46 profile image
Katinka46β€’ in reply toPantani

I wish it were...

Pantani profile image
Pantaniβ€’ in reply toKatinka46

So do I , .

Oshgosh profile image
Oshgosh

That’s so to the point. I’m always spitting,then cleaning the sink.

Jomo46 profile image
Jomo46

You are so spot on.

Xx jo

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Jaybird19

Oh Don . Your imagination ! It will answer you back next wailing as it disappears .

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What a brilliant idea. I could follow it's travels, that would show people what real yucky was. πŸ˜‰πŸ˜

Kristicats profile image
Kristicatsβ€’ in reply to

🀒

Lyd12 profile image
Lyd12β€’ in reply to

Reminds me of a school composition I wrote about the adventures of a penny. It fell out of a pocket and rolled down the drain and travelled a long, long way! x

β€’ in reply toLyd12

Did it have a happy ending, Iris? 🧐x

Lyd12 profile image
Lyd12β€’ in reply to

Guess what! I don’t remember! x

Katinka46 profile image
Katinka46

Oh yuk and mega yuk...

Thank goodness it’s a while since lunch and a long time to tea.

K xx

HungryHufflepuff profile image
HungryHufflepuffβ€’ in reply toKatinka46

Unfortunately for me I just started my rather late lunch 🀣

Yatzy profile image
Yatzyβ€’ in reply toHungryHufflepuff

And me.....!! πŸ˜«πŸ˜†

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Katinka46

It reminds me of Professor Rob Wilson (bronchiectasis specialist at RBH) in a European Respiratory Society seminar waxing exceeding lyrical about sputum: β€œI love sputum,” he said. β€œI can tell so much from it.” Hmmm.... I sent him my cartoon about confusion between sputum, mousse, yogurt and ice-cream pots for my hospital lunch.

Kx

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JerryMarenβ€’ in reply toKatinka46

πŸ€’πŸ€’πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Patsy164

I was thinking as I read it Don, this is quite poetic for Don there must be a joke coming soon and there it was. It did make me laugh πŸ˜‚ xx

Izb1 profile image
Izb1

I have to agree with Katinka YUK!

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Don't we all? πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

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WheezyAnne

Brilliant, but youcky done with such style. Made my day.

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Oh, thank you Anne, I was beginning to feel a bit down with all the yucky responses I was getting. 🀣😘x

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jmsutt73β€’ in reply to

Reality matters, Don! Great poem! (I was always told that I was too "matter of fact"..so much so that I was the only one in our teen group without a photo of Elvis on my wall. I really liked Elvis, but I just couldn't understand why I would put a hole in my wall to hang a photo of someone who didn't even know me and who I would never meet.) ;-(

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Kristicats

Excellent Don I was hoping it was a spider though πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ

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I had no idea that my ailing friends were such a sensitive lot. Coughing up and seeing what I described, is one of the most satisfying things I do these days. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

Lyd12 profile image
Lyd12β€’ in reply to

I’m happy as long as it’s not blood - that always scares me!

SORRELHIPPO profile image
SORRELHIPPO

Do you remember, or maybe it did not happen to you, but when a child in hospital, had a "sputum pot" by the bed, every night you had to fill, for their inspection.

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Katinka46β€’ in reply toSORRELHIPPO

Never mind as a child, they are still used and beloved by consultants.

K x

β€’ in reply toSORRELHIPPO

I've never had anyone interested in my sputum until quite recently. 😊

SORRELHIPPO profile image
SORRELHIPPOβ€’ in reply to

Shame. As a child I found the whole thing pleasantly gruesome.

MoyB profile image
MoyB

Well, Don, I got it straight away! Such a perfect description of what goes on in our house on a regular basis!!

When I see it clinging like it does, I think it's no wonder I have such a job to move it sometimes. It's like glue!

You gave me a laugh as always - even if it was about the yukky stuff.

xx Moy

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I have to take a specimen of my water when I go for my Diabetes Review tomorrow, but I don't think I'll bother writing a rhyme about that. πŸ˜‰xx

MoyB profile image
MoyBβ€’ in reply to

May be a step too far! But I reckon you could even make that sound like a fun thing to do. xx Moy

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shouty

Yep ! I used to be a Respiratory nurse ( talk about ironic) & some patients produced so much we had to weigh it. The Consultant on his ward round loved to inspect each pot & his favourite word was "Purulent " and go on to tell the medical students "This sputum contains pus, composed of white blood cells, cellular debris, dead tissue, serous fluid, and viscous liquid (mucus)." Lovely😝

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Cade1β€’ in reply toshouty

When I was a student nurse, I used to hate looking at sputum. I used to do it in the sluice where no one could hear my retching. Purple to exudate (fluid coming off wounds) was something I had no problem with though πŸ€”

Cade1 profile image
Cade1β€’ in reply toCade1

Meant Purulent exudate , not purple!!!!

β€’ in reply toCade1

Good grief, whatever have I started! πŸ˜†

shouty profile image
shoutyβ€’ in reply to

i will leave it there & refrain from moving on to gangrene and maggots 🀣

shouty profile image
shoutyβ€’ in reply toCade1

oh those happy days lol

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Shirleyj

Can definitely relate to that 😝😝x

Dilly2 profile image
Dilly2

I think men spitt into the basin.

Woman into toilet tissue down the toilet to flush away πŸ˜‚

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From a distance? πŸ˜‚

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Dilly2β€’ in reply to

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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