I see this precocious and delicious 5 year old - she's been in treatment for about a year. I've watched her grow and change in meaningful yet unexplainable ways. We have a great relationship and her treatment has always been relatively smooth. The reason I have to write about her is because of the one aspect of our sessions that is unique to us.
Snacks.
Mom brings her to her appointment straight after school and picks up a snack for her on the way. Her snack choices rarely have a repeat and they vary on the nutrition spectrum from one extreme to the other. Examples? Yogurt covered pretzles, fruit flavored mentos, sour punch straws, a green apple, and today- Combos (the pretzel/cheese ones, if you must know). Most of these items, are not snacks I would choose for myself. But here goes the weird part: whatever she is eating, I instantly crave. There is something about the way this child manipulates her food, the sound of it in her mouth, or the project she creates in the process of consuming it that makes the item a must-have for me. And I don't mean in the moment that I am witnessing the consumption, I mean the experience gets in me and stays there so the next time I pass those stupid sour straws and feel absolutely compelled to buy them and eat them...all week!
Input anyone?
Ideas?
That's all for now. I have a bag of Combos to get to...
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This is going to stay with me a while. I've had something similar my whole life: Crispers. There is something about those particular brand of french fries that satisfies something I saw on TV at some point in my childhood. I still can't name it or remember it but every time I see them I want them and every time I eat them it's satisfying. It matches some dim recollection of what I thought something would taste and feel like when I saw it on TV. (No, it wasn't a commercial for them.)
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