now this isn't some smoking prevention piece, I didn't start working for the AMA, or the Heart and Lung Association, believe me, if smoking didn't kill you and make you smell like a rag, everyone would be doing it, cause its cool. I have a whole sociological thought process about how some people are natural smokers, meaning they look right smoking a butt (picture Bogey), some don't (picture Travolta). This isn't one of those pieces either...
after quitting, while my breathing improved and I felt better overall, my bronchitis became sort of a chronic affair, when I'm around smoke, an influx of dust or any foreign air particles for long periods of time, I tend to get locked up, and get a mini-bronchial infection. Sometime it just sits in my throat and nose...
upon moving into the new place in the FHills I was greeted by a large amount of foreign particles. No offense to the previous resident, but there was more dust in this place than the PS 33 schoolyard after dark circa 1993. Suffice to say, I've had a few bouts of of the old ear, nose and throat boogie...
the Kitten and I (she is a medical profession) had been talking a few months back about the saline flush. Sniffing in a saline solution—warm water and salt—through your nasal cavity and back through the oral cavity. Some of you might be familiar with such a procedure and its benefits, Dean Thrilla is a proponent, Kitten said her friend Norm is a daily sniffer as well. She also told me that Carol Burnett did it every day and lauded the procedure as the reason she never missed a show...
earlier in the week I turned on the AC when the weather got a little too unseasonable. I had previously cleaned the filter out thinking that would be enough—it wasn't. It turns out the coils were all sooted up, a fact I was not aware of the night before when i went to sleep. I woke all throaty and snarfly. Time for the 'Ol' Carol Burnett'...
days looking a little clearer now...
...don't even ask what the harvey korman is
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actually, it's the hazards of living on a main street. the bastard had a maid in every two weeks to go over the place and i figured she did the job. the new place is inside from 2nd ave and it get dusty all the time
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