lingering snot!

[arguchik]

WTF? i've been feeling better since tuesday evening, but this lingering snot is driving me crazy! it's relentless, and it's taking forever to clear out of my nose and throat. last night i started coughing, too, which has me worried the ick is going to settle into my bronchia for a brand new party at my expense.

fucking viruses, man.

today's a writing day and a taking care of paperwork day and a catching up on my woefully neglected email day.

in other news: i will have at least one teaching gig for spring quarter, maybe two. i don't want to be more specific until everything's settled. there are contingencies.

Comments

[rojonoir.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you should talk to malafrena about neti pots

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

yeah, my friend L uses one too. i've been wanting to get one, just haven't gotten around to it.

[superannuated1l.livejournal.com]

As my teapot experiment proved, you don't need to get a neti pot. Just use the gravy separator.

Also, keep drinking warm fluids, even though you're extremely sick of soup.

Also, if you have asthma and have an albuterol inhaler, start using it 1 or 2x a day. For me, that keeps my lungs from trapping the crap.

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

Also, if you have asthma and have an albuterol inhaler, start using it 1 or 2x a day. For me, that keeps my lungs from trapping the crap.


that shit is fun even when you're not sick and don't have asthma.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

alas, i have neither asthma nor inhaler.

nor gravy separator, as it happens--this is just a kitchen tool with which i'm familiar, and which has similar structural properties to the neti pot (i.e. a spout that empties from the bottom of the reservoir).

[superannuated1l.livejournal.com]

You have a different definition of "fun" than I do. Not that we didn't already know that.

[malafrena.livejournal.com]

Neti pot is the ultimate, but a bulb syringe will do in a pinch. Lots of ways to clean out the mucous -- for a long time I was following dr.'s advice of kind of snorting it into my throat, then gagging and spitting it into the sink. Ewww. But you could simulate the neti pot by squirting it gently into one nostril. I suppose a teapot would do, but you wouldn't want to tell any of your friends . . .

Get well soon!