I’m not particularly squeamish about most things. I’ve cleaned up puke, changed diapers, and seen various animals slaughtered, cleaned, and converted into food. However, there’s one phrase I really could have gone my whole life without learning.
This experience has changed me. I know that I will never be the same. It is my own personal Omaha Beach, as sad as that is. I feel like I’m ready for anything now.
But I’m mainly just ready to not hear that phrase again.


For me it was ::shudder:: meconium. Gah.
Oh wow. I had never heard the word ‘meconium’ before, but I’ve actually had it on me. I think it may have been carbonated the way it shot out.