Breathing is Good.

Today I am grateful for this funny looking thing:

While I consider myself very blessed that I really don't get sick very often, my sinuses always suffer with any change in season.  Changing to the colder months seem to be the worst, as I struggle with really, really dry everything.  For the past couple of nights I've woken up between 2 and 4 AM feeling my nose all dried up, making it difficult to breathe.  I refuse to breathe through my mouth (see reasons here) unless I'm really going to die.  So I struggle to breathe through my nose, trying to create some air flow through all the dryness.  I'm always able to manage but my breathing sounds really loud.  (Luckily my husband doesn't wake up easily).  On top of this, I generally find that when I blow my nose... it's sometimes a little... bloody.  (Gross, yes?)

Well, I finally got my hands on this little blue device (my version is the NASAflo, but any neti pot will do).  I've been meaning to pick one up at the store for ages.  Despite the fact that I felt so strange sticking this thing up my nose, and even stranger when fluid started pouring out my other nostril, I didn't have any problems with my breathing last night!  (I still woke up, but I do every night anyway.  But I can fall back asleep much easier when my breathing doesn't sound like some creepy stalker.)  And a bonus:  no red in my tissue today.  YAY!!!!!!!

The only downfall is that you MUST breathe through your mouth while doing it... or you may die.  But to help clean things up, I think it's worth it.

Besides, it's just fun to tell people that I have to go irrigate my sinus canal.