**Sigh**-nuses

It is officially Hump Day, and I am just getting to the completion of this blog. This was technically Monday’s post, but as you will find out when you read, I blame all lack of productivity on sinus activity. I’m actually writing most of this from memory because somehow I failed to save a single word.

My DBBF (if you don’t know by now, that stands for Dearly Beloved Best Friend) and I will occasionally begin a phone conversation with this greeting: “Will you please come cut my nose off?” This is usually our not-so-subtle way of signaling that our sinuses are out of control. Yesterday, it was my turn to call, but my sinuses had me so off course that I barely got anything done.

Whenever my sinuses go completely off the rails, it’s because I’m either not drinking enough water, or because I’m catching a cold. In my younger days, colds would be of the 24-hour variety, easy to come, but easy to get rid of with a cup of my mom’s hot tea remedy.

But as my age increased, so did the complexity of the treatment. At first Theraflu worked, then NyQuil. Now it’s a combination of the tea, NyQuil, a sinus pill and a squirt of nasal spray. I generally try to avoid the nasal spray at almost all costs because it’s totally gross. After I spray it, I can feel it—ewww—oozing down my throat and I get the unfortunate taste as if I’ve just drank hair spray.

So until my face stops leaking (because with sinus problems comes runny nose AND watery eyes), I am at the mercy of NyQuil.

My biggest problem is that I’m allergic to dust. Laugh at the irony that I work in a library, where dust is a job hazard. So going to work inhibits my sinus healing, and has on a few occasions led to a full blown sinus infection where I had to get antibiotics plus other OTC remedies (last year it was Mucinex and Sudafed).

Tired now. My nose is draining, not just in the tissues I am blowing through, but causes fatigue. Charge any grammatical errors to them. **sigh**

And **sniff*