You know sometimes you get nightmares & just wake up right before the worst thing happen in it? Well, that happened to me today. I can't remember what the nightmare was about except that I was gasping for air. I opened my eyes & sit right up inhaling 1 big breath of air like I was almost suffocated. Guess what? I had a blocked nose. Yeah...
It's a kinda weird feeling when you can neither breathe in or blow out through your nose. Like you're scuba diving where everything goes in & out of your mouth only. I tried blowing it out but other than turning my face as red as a tomato nothing came out. Great! Another fabulous start to a wonderful day.
I made myself some ginger tea hoping that would help. Indeed it helped. It starting my nose running. Mucus started to dribble out but damn, I still can't breathe through it. I tried squirting some water in. Oh yeah, more mucus flows out along with the water but it's still stuck. Hey! it's getting better! Now even my ears are stuck. I can hardly hear anything except my own pulse.
I thought leaving it alone & it might just go away. But it's just that difficult to work when you can't breathe & with all that mucus trickling out of it. It took me twice as long to do my work with the constant trips to the washroom to clean it up.
This started from the moment I woke up till late afternoon when I decided to try & sleep it off. A nap I took & 2 hours later I woke up with 1 cleared nostril. Yeah! It's a vast improvement. At least I could breathe through 1 of the orifices.
Funny how a blocked nose can affect my appetite as well. Basically everything I put in my mouth is quite tasteless. Did I catch a cold? Flu tablets certainly didn't serve their purpose if I did. Now I really feel like I'm a fire breathing dragon. The functioning nostril feels so sore & warm, like it is a blow torch with flames shooting out of it. Took another 2 more flu tablets & it's time to pick up my lady.
Today is an interesting day for her. Her company has this annual event where all the staff will go to this home for troubled kids & do volunteer work. They spent half the day there playing with the kids & some other stuffs. Heard from her that some of the teenage girls there were those typical CALs (read: chow ah lians). Why, where else would you find problem kids?
The day did not end just there, by evening they proceeded to Singapore Expo where they had their dinner & attended talks by the upper management people. There was a lucky draw too. Being the luckless couple that we are, it wasn't a surprise that she did not win anything of value except 2 bottles of Pringles. Yeah, at least this was something we both have a passion for.
When I reached there, I realise that my nose is cleared! Now that is something worth celebrating. But now that I'm back home it's starting all over again. Am I allergic to my own house?
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haha, you sound like you're allergic to something in the house. No surprises, the house is not usually very ventilated, and is more humid.
I drink ginger tea too, to clear a cold or cough. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt.
Re: nightmares, sometimes I subconsciously willed myself to wake up, so that I don't have to go thru the worst!
Hmm... Come to think about it, my room is indeed very poorly ventilated. So I should stay out more often & not be such a homely guy? Haha!
Yeah, I think whether ginger tea helps or not depends on the severity of the illness.
10 out of 10 times I can't remember my dreams. Be it sweet or nightmarish. But I do know that I dreamt. That's my only consolation...
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