… allergies.
… Neti Pot.
Miranda told me about this creation, the Neti Pot. An unholy tea pot that pours a saline solution into your face through one nostril, and expels your head sewage out the other nose hole.
Yes it works, but at what cost?
Coral and I plunked the $20 bones down on the little blue tea pot looking vessel. It came with 50 packets of saline solution mix and instructions.
Fill with water and saline solution. Bend forward and tilt your head easily to one side. Pour solution into nose. Choke, gag, almost puke and then eventually drain snotty sludge.
Coral went first because she is brave and it worked great for her, but my turn did not work well the first time. My nose was too clogged and after the one sinus filled with solution, it collected what snot it could, then rolled down the back of my throat, all in my mouth and some went down, down, down to my belly.
It made me want to gag, but it did make some progress, the second pot full of salty witch brew finally broke through the sinus barrier and brought a torrent of snot with it.
Yes, I am breathing tonight as I type this blog waiting for files to transfer from the PC to the Mac, but still feel queasy from the experience.
The Neti Pot worked Miranda… it worked. It woked too well… some things should never come out of your nose.
The Morning After 
the idea of this disturbs me.
eeeesch. i’d rather be snot filled i think.
you’re a brave man mr baker. good for you.
also, if you ever move beyond the 50 supplied packs of “saline solution”, don’t buy more… just mix your own using epsom salts.
oh, also don’t swallow saline solution. it makes you poop. a lot.
aahahahha!!
take THAT pollen!
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/04/14/bc-pollen-count-allegies.html?ref=rss
glad it’s working for you!
LOL. That’s kinda nasty.
I &heart Nasal Irrigation.
i have heard many words about the pot. people have tried to make me try pot. it sounded strange and uncomfortable and might just freak my shit out. but if you like the pot, mr. baker, i might just give it a try. since you say it’s cool and all.
I don’t know if I said it was cool… it is anything but. It is horrible to witness and a tragedy to experience… but the results… well I can’t argue those.
How’s the ingesting of ‘itan’s since the pot? I’m scared of the pot, personally, and I have some mild allergies all year round. I just don’t want to know what lives in there, if I can’t pick it out.
Good Job on the articles you have here, thank you for putting your time into it!