Friends, don’t let friends make podcasts when they are sick…
Don’t get as sick as Nick did - you can listen to it here. First I wanted to call his mom, then I started to worry that I would get what he had just by listening to the podcast - he sounded so bad! Sure enough, later that night I got the chills and all achey and that stuff started running down my throat… so I drank a bunch of echinachea tea and went to bed early. I woke up at 4am feeling like crap. Then I remembered that I had a neti-pot and used it right away. I used it again this morning and am still drinking echinacea so we’ll see how far ahead I can stay - it hasn’t gotten me yet. It washes all that gunk out and doesn’t give it a chance to proliferate in your body. The neti-pot has always either usurped a cold or cut it in half (if I didn’t use it early enough in the game). This stuff is bouncing among as at church and we should all probably get neti-pots - actually everyone in Minnesota should probably own one… If you have cats or children, buy a plastic one. I’m on my third porcelain one and didn’t know about the plastic ones until I just found this neti-pot site. The porcelain ones at this site are cheaper than what I paid at Chinaberry or at the Healing Source at Calhoun Square, too.
January 30th, 2005 at 1:25 am
Patsy..the neti-pot thing really freaks me out. I, of all people, should probably have one! But the idea of pouring water up your nose so it can come out the other side brings me back to the school lunchroom days when you laughed so hard milk shot out of your nose! Or when you went swimming in the pool, and accidentally snorted up a bunch of water! I guess I’ll have to borrow yours sometime. Ewww….just kidding. I have a sinus infection now…if it doesn’t go away, I might have to try it out. But, the photo on the neti-pot website is just creepy! Go look at the banner on top. Is that fake? Or does the water really pour out like that? I once knew a guy in Jr. High that could make a piece of spaghetti come out of his nose. That’s all I have to say. Good night.
January 30th, 2005 at 5:33 pm
Yeah, those thing hurt - but the netti pot doesn’t because you use saline water to match the ph of your body fluids (remember the green lady on Star Trek who sucked all the salt out of the extra expendable crew men’s bodies?)
I will say the cold got me - but it went to my chest, not my head and stalling at my ears. And I do seem to be recovering faster than the rest of those who got the bluer-bug crud. So just order one and get better, will ya?
(According to John, there also seems to be a “bluer-butt” syndrome going around so be careful of your tailbone when ice-skating or sledding… Maybe we need netti-pillows or something.)