Masking nasal issues only works to a point

I’m finally in what I think is the last phase of my recent health confusion. My nose is dripping, and it seems like I use at least one box of tissues daily.

When I was young, I remember having a bad case of this, and I asked my mother, “Mom, where does all my snot come from?”

I’d never seen my mother as angry with me as she was for me saying that. She looked at me and growled, “Son, I never want to hear you say that word again. We don’t use the word ‘snot’ in our house. We use the phrase, ‘nasal fluids. If you ever say the word ‘snot’ again, you’ll be in more trouble than you’ve ever been in your life. Do you understand me?”