Après Noël

Bonjour tout le monde.

I've been back on my feet for some time as my recovery from my debilitating nasal disorder was reletively swift. I must say that the nasal douching was very useful for speeding it up, but enough about that. Unfortuneately, just as I got better, Annmarie got an ear infection. So she got worse as I got better, and I took over most housely duties. Then with work getting rather busy as we delivered a report, I haven't had time to write about either Christmas or other events since. I'll write a catch up soon as we have some rather interesting news, for anyone that is still reading this blog.

Douche done

So it is now two nasal douches and an episode of Firefly later. I must say that I do feel much better now that it's done. Wasn't the most elegant or pleasant procedure I've ever done, but much less uncomfortable than I was expecting. I'm still not perfect but I feel that tomorrow I may be doing much better. However, now my mucus tastes like salt, kinda like I've been swiming down at the beach.

Desperate measures

Well, my cold (and possible sinusitis) has been getting gradually better. Unfortunately it's been getting better in that way that shows you just how bad it really had gotten by the fact that you feel so much better, but then you realise that you've still got so far to go to being normal.

As such I am now moving into the realm of advanced techniques in the nasal/sinus/mucus realm. I am preparing to administer a nasal douche to myself. For those who don't know, it's basically pouring lukewarm salty water through the nasal passage (either one nostril to the other or nostril then out the mouth) in order to clean it up. Really helps blast out the mucus I hear.

Anyway if I don't make it through this procedure, Annmarie will provide a post-mortem debriefing of the event.

Wish me luck!

Heading back to healthy

Well Christmas is over and the New Year has arrived. I haven't been in a fit state to enjoy the latter however. I've been rather sick as a matter of fact. It's only been a cold as far as I know, not even the flu, no fever or anything like that, but it's been the most viscous cold I've ever had. I'm guessing it's just not like one of those Aussie colds but a real Glasgow cold. It's absolutely floored me for ages, the worst has been for the last three days but it was quite bad for the three days before that. I won't go into the details of how bad it's been, but I'll just say that it's been bad enough that my sinuses have felt like they were on fire. Anyway, I'm starting to recover somewhat and it's ebbing back to just a regular bad cold at the moment. I'm starting to be able to think anyway. It's still keeping me from sleeping a bit, thus the late night post. Anyway, I'm hoping in a couple of days I'll be well enough to get back into the swing of everything, at which point I'll put up a proper account of Christmas.