and mine knows that it is really, really stopped up. Remember when I fell over the curb at Starbucks this winter? After that I had a period of time when I couldn't smell or taste things. This sent me to an ENT who stuck that long tube up my nose and told me I had a deviated septum. Well, last Wed I had the surgery to straighten my septum and get rid of excessive tissue in my nose. It has not been fun. First of all I can't breathe through my nose..... at all, therefore I can't taste anything.......again. Or smell. Two things I like doing a lot. Secondly, I have to do this gross nasal wash with saline twice a day, for TWO weeks!! I'm NOT explaining it...the term nasal irrigation should be explanation enough. It is not pretty. I am not allowed to blow my nose, lift anything heavy, bend over to get things off the floor, and should refrain from sneezing, if at all possible. If I do have to sneeze, I am to do it with my mouth open, only. How do you think that goes over in a grocery store?
I'm hoping I will be glad I had this done, but right now the antibiotic they have me on makes me nauseated all day long. So let me sum this up. A simple little Starbucks stop caused me to injure myself enough that I had to have long tubes stuck up in my nose, followed by surgery to fix my nose, which lead to unpleasant treatments involving fluids running into my nose, also causing restrictions on how I am able to use my own body, to clean my house, or rid it of foreign objects, like pollens that must be ejected from said body immediately........AND finally, I am a terribly allergic person who is now a social outcast because I must sneeze with my mouth wide open. When people look at me they don't know about my nose, it looks fine. So, now I'm just a weird old lady who sneezes with her mouth open..........all because I wanted a mocha frappacino on a rainy winter day, and forgot that there was a cement curb to step over on my way back to the car. It could happen to anyone...right?
I'm hoping I will be glad I had this done, but right now the antibiotic they have me on makes me nauseated all day long. So let me sum this up. A simple little Starbucks stop caused me to injure myself enough that I had to have long tubes stuck up in my nose, followed by surgery to fix my nose, which lead to unpleasant treatments involving fluids running into my nose, also causing restrictions on how I am able to use my own body, to clean my house, or rid it of foreign objects, like pollens that must be ejected from said body immediately........AND finally, I am a terribly allergic person who is now a social outcast because I must sneeze with my mouth wide open. When people look at me they don't know about my nose, it looks fine. So, now I'm just a weird old lady who sneezes with her mouth open..........all because I wanted a mocha frappacino on a rainy winter day, and forgot that there was a cement curb to step over on my way back to the car. It could happen to anyone...right?
Dear Harriet,
ReplyDeleteI would welcome you to "The Wierd Old Ladies" club but you are way too young and really, not weird enough. :)
I am a full fledged member so I can admit qualified ladies.....Sorry!
You can wait awhile and then try again.
Mary C.
Lesson learned: Stay away from Starbucks!
ReplyDeleteI laughed out loud at the picture of you sneezing, mouth agape, in the grocery store. I hope you weren't in the bakery department. Gross!!!