this apple cobbler yogurt is pretty tasty.

[fox]

The nurse swabbed my throat in addition to taking all my vitals, and came away with a charcoal-grey swab that she put in a little sleeve - but then there was nothing black for the doctor to look at when he came to see me. He said he thought by this time it was pretty clear I was dealing with a sinus infection, and he gave me a ten-day course of amoxicillin. So if it gets better, great, and if not, I can go back and say DUDE, THERE ARE MUSHROOMS IN MY SKULL, and get some other sort of drug, I guess.

He also recommended a Neti Pot, so I finally fucking caved and bought one. We'll see how that goes.

Comments

[kass]

Oh, man. I am so sorry about all of this, honey! Here's hoping the amoxicillin helps.

[cinco]

I hope you feel better soon and don't have any mushrooms growing in your head!

And, as I am sure I have already told you, I love my neti pot very much.

[laurajv]

seconding the neti pot. it's astounding how well those things work.

[laurajv]

Here. I provide you with cheerful reading material!

In applying the vasoconstrictors small pledgets of cotton should be wound upon the thinnest flexible copper applicators bent to adapt them to the contours of the nose. These should not be forced into the meatus. If they cannot immediately be laid into the slit, and usually they cannot, sucessive applications should be made, shrinking the membrane a little at a time. The gentleness with which the applications are made is most important in hastening recovery. Wooden sticks have no place in the nose.

(Applied Physiology of the Nose, Arthur W. Proetz, p. 334)
(edited because I forgot to close the parens!)