Faux Real

9 Responses to “Kill Me”

1. 1 ScottM Mar 2nd, 2007 at 8:05 pm

   Swift virus beating to you! (It may help to imagine them getting their little virusy tops pummeled like an upside down punching bag…)

2. 2 Hugo Mar 2nd, 2007 at 9:24 pm

   Sending you healing prayers. Your belief in their efficacy not required.

3. 3 Uccellina Mar 3rd, 2007 at 1:13 am

   I find that garlic has the dual benefit of boosting your immune system while ensuring that those nearest to you share your misery.

4. 4 Robert Mar 3rd, 2007 at 3:43 am

   Sorry, killing you isn’t an option; your duty to your child trumps your right to check out early. (Damn liberal relativists, always seeking the easy out!)

   Feel better. Chicken soup helps. Get lots of sleep.

5. 5 xpig Mar 3rd, 2007 at 8:40 am

   I’m sorry to hear these horrors. I’d been getting sick alot recently and found something that seems to be helping me, for what it’s worth. It’s freakishly disgusting, but it’s great for sinus health. I got a waterpick and bought an attachment for it that looks like a little rubber cone. You can by them from Grossan (they call it an irrigator) for a big pile of money, but there’s an ancient pharmacy near me that had one on a back shelf somewhere for mighty cheap. Anyway, you put this bugger in one of your nostrils and put a little (uniodized!) salt in the warm water you put in the waterpick, and turn it on. It pulses the water up into your sinuses and it comes out the other nostril. Cleans you out, plus the saline apparently leaves your sinuses in a good place. Hey. I said it was freakishly disgusting. But it seems to do alot of good, both in helping get over stuff and in prevention. It’d have to, to get me to stick that thing in my nose every morning.

   I hope you feel well soon, with or without irrigating. Or at least that the hideousness of my description took your mind off your torment for a second. Take care

6. 6 Marked Hoosier Mar 3rd, 2007 at 5:52 pm

   Feel better soon! :)

7. 7 Anne Mar 3rd, 2007 at 10:41 pm

   The Partner recently got into Jala Neti yoga, which you can read about here — he even ordered the nose kettle pictured at the top. So, if you ever want to clean out your nose, stop on by! In fact, it’s worth it just stop on by to watch him do it. It’s weird, but I tried it.

   Drink lots of fluids, eat some spicy foods, and cut back on the cigs. Faux realz.

8. 8 Lauren Mar 3rd, 2007 at 10:45 pm

   Auguste just IMed me a gross story about somebody getting a shot into her sinuses that pulled out 2 lbs of snot and blood — and ended her migraines for six years afterward! So for nothing else has skeeved me out quite so badly.

9. 9 zuzu Mar 4th, 2007 at 1:41 am

   Well, there was that woman on Salon Table Talk who had to have her skull pulled off to clean out her impacted upper sinuses. That was pretty nasty.

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