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Ewww!

Fun Fact: This is the first time, in two weeks, I've been able to feel the backside of my front teeth, due to mucus encasement. It is also the first time, in two weeks, I haven't felt like I was sucking on a snot popsicle.

I'm unsure why I had an increase in mucus secretions, but it was pouring out. It was all I could do to keep up. My poor caregivers were put to work scrubbing dried-on mucus from the back and front of my teeth. The effectiveness of brushing my teeth was questionable. Thus, when they freed from their prison, we got right on teeth brushing. Oh, it's the simple things!

I wonder, dear reader, if you are repulsed by the more glamorous realities of ALS?
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