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I'm sick.

I rarely get sick.  Mostly when the seasons change.  Even then, that might just be allergies.

I'm sure I'm sick this time.

Maybe it was the flight back home.  Maybe it's the fact that California is on fire.  I just don't know.

The symptoms: stuffy nose, stuffy head, sore throat, headah-y, body aches, changes is body temp (hot! cold! hot! cold!)

The most annoying of them is the stuffiness.  A friend suggested Mucinex.  But there's a couple of problems.  I hate the prospect of mucus.  Like, I will say that I'm just completely stuffed up and congested before I admit to having an ounce of mucus in my body.  Weird and completely avoiding the issue?  Maybe.  But I don't get down with mucus.  He said it works.  But I don't have mucus (read: I'm in denial), so it won't help me.  The other thing is, he said you have to drink hecka water cus you can get dehydrated or something.  What if I don't drink enough water??  What if I get dehydrated in my sleep and wake up and look like this:

I forgot to drink water while I was taking Mucinex and now I'm all dehydrated. Like a raisin.

That's how I'll look if I take Mucinex and forget to drink water.  I'll wake up looking like a raisin.  (btw: that's Christie Brinkley with me, The California Raisin.  She's in the news lately, for putting her to-be-ex on blast about his swinging lifestyle.)

So, stuffed-up I remained cus I was too scurred to take the suggested Mucinex.

Until!  I remembered that I had nasal spray.  DUH!

That stuff works!  And it doesn't talk about the m-word (mucus) and it doesn't threaten to make me turn into a raisin!  Cha-chiiiiing!

Into the right nostril the little applicator goes. 

Except. 

I apply too much pressure to the bottle and nasal spray GUSHES into my nose.  BURN!  DROWNING-SENSATION!  CHEMICALS! 

But I have to put it into the other side, otherwise my right nostril will be a wind tunnel and the left will be the Hoover Dam.  The left side wasn't as bad as the right.

Some time later, while I can breathe, my nose is EXTREMELY sensitive.  Too much nasal spray!  Everything is making me sneeze.  The air is too cold for my nose, so I'm walking around my place holding things to my nose cus it feels like I'm getting a can of condensed air blown up it every time I inhale.  It's hard being all hot from the temperature, but having to hold my blanket to my nose cus it's freezing. 

I.hate.being.sick.