{"id":5152,"date":"2010-02-07T11:47:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T16:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2017-01-03T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T15:24:19","slug":"stick-it-up-yer-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/07\/stick-it-up-yer-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"stick it up yer nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toothpastefordinner.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mouth-breather.gif\" alt=\"toothpastefordinner.com: mouth breather\" width=\"550\" height=\"462\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toothpastefordinner.com\/\">toothpastefordinner.com<\/a> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toothpastefordinner.com\/112409\/mouth-breather.gif\">original image<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you&#8217;d told me even six months ago that I&#8217;d be scooting a quarter litre of warm saline up my nose every night, I&#8217;d be all like, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yeah, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=chinny+reckon\">chinny reck<strong><em>on<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. But sadly, and this may be heading into TMI territory, it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>For many years, my nose wasn&#8217;t much more than decorative. Too blocked to provide a useful means of breathing or sensing smells, it got only occasional use as a sunglasses bracket. It also had unpleasant nocturnal habits, ones best not described here.<\/p>\n<p>A month or so ago, I decided I&#8217;d had enough. I went to the pharmacy and got one of those squeezy bottle things that comes with the little sachets of salt+bicarb. I can smell again! I can actually use my nose for breathing!!<\/p>\n<p>Those two benefits are pretty awesome, but the whole process isn&#8217;t a bed of roses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>yeah, you really need to do the <em>kha-kha-kha<\/em> thing with your throat, unless you like aspirating saline.<\/li>\n<li>every night, it still feels a little like drowning, and hasn&#8217;t really got any better.<\/li>\n<li>A sinus can still surprise up to an hour later, when an unexpected head tilt can produce a deluge too large for any tissue.<\/li>\n<li>if the water&#8217;s too cold, it feels like being stabbed in the head. From the inside.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m much more in touch with my mucus than I want to be, and far, far more than you&#8217;d want me to be. I mean seriously, some of the <em>things<\/em> that I get out &#8230; well, let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;ve measured from nostrils to bronchi, and these luminous sinus puppies would easily stretch that far.<\/li>\n<li>The results are nothing like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LW9mvVe7Mk4\">video<\/a>. They&#8217;re all serene, like they&#8217;re getting their Deva Premal on; me, I&#8217;m left snotty and spluttering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, it works for me. But we&#8217;re all glad that I&#8217;m not sharing the details, aren&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;d told me even six months ago that I&#8217;d be scooting a quarter litre of warm saline up my nose every night, I&#8217;d be all like, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yeah, chinny reckon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. But sadly, and this may be heading into TMI territory, it&#8217;s true. For many years, my nose wasn&#8217;t much more than decorative. Too blocked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[353,2031,2074,2076,1669,2073,796,2075],"class_list":["post-5152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-eww","tag-gross","tag-irrigation","tag-mucus","tag-nose","tag-sinus","tag-smell","tag-tmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1l6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13672,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions\/13672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}