From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Satan's Sinuses Peeve
Date: 16 Oct 92 09:16:52 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

	Well, my hayfever has decided to go for one last huzzah before 
calling it quits for the winter.

	Yesterday it attacked with a vengance. at 6:30 am I felt a sneeze 
coming on. By noon, the hayfever had taken over. My sinuses were so horribly
swelled that every tooth on my head felt like it had it own little Tooth Fairy 
gone Bad under its root trying to force it out of my jawbone. My temples felt 
like they were going to explode. I thought my cheekbones were going to develop 
fault lines from the internal pressure. I kept looking for cracks in my 
forehead. THAT's how swelled my sinuses were.

	Worst of all, though, was the sheer speed at which my nose was 
producing boogers. I figure something in my head must have been in overdrive, 
because I was almost constantly blosing my nose. The result of this was, of 
course, a nose that would have outdone Rudolph for sheer luminosity and 
redness. I figured the Kleenex I was using must have abraded my skin right off 
and I was actually looking a blood sodden muscle tissue; there's no WAY skin 
could get THAT red.

	Peeve: Being sick at work when work entails dealing with the public.
First they all assume you have a cold, and make a comment like "you shouldn't 
be at work with a cold like that." Well, I have news for you. IT'S NOT A 
FUCKING COLD! AM I COUGHING? THEN IT'S FUCKING HAYFEVER! NOW LEAVE ME ALONE! 
Second I can't concentrate when I am in that much pain, and that makes users 
frustrated when I try to help them. Third my patience wears VERY thin when I'm 
that sick. Users pick up on that and things just go to hell form there.

	!Peeve: over the counter cold remedies that work for hayfever 
too. I'm of the "If you're sick, take anything that stands even a remote 
chance of helping" school of thought, or as a friend of mine put it, "Kill it 
with lots of drugs." After work I stopped off at the local drug store and 
armed myself for the upcoming biological struggle. I figured in the Battle of 
Mike vs. the Havfever, I had an advantage in that I could buy drugs, and the 
hayfever can't. I bought Sudafed, Tylenol, Sinutab, Vitamin C (on the off 
chance that is WAS a cold plus hey, it was cheap) and had the druggist sell me
a weak concentration of hyrdacortesone cream for my red nose.

	I got to me apartment, and armed myself for the upcoming struggle. I 
boiled some water, and applied the cream. Then I made the Sinutab nighttime,
took the tylenol, vitamin C, and Sudafed. I drank the Sunutab (it was in the 
form of a hot drink), and went to bed.

	Well, the battle commenced, and I won. The sinuses are drained, the 
sneezing is gone, the aches have left, and the redness has subsided for the 
most part. My nose is a bit stuffed up, but I can live with that. Besides, I'm 
a little concerned about taking anythign else right now. There are probably 
enough chemicals floasting around in my system right now to give a pharmicist 
screaming nightmares for a week, and I don't think the old bod can handle any 
more for a while.

	Peeve: I heard somewhere that excess phlegm makes its way to the 
stomach. If that's true, my stomach is going to be Booger Central for the next
few hours. I wonder how many calories there are in snot?  I guess that 
explains why people aren't hungey when they have colds, though.

	!Peeve: one (or more) of the drugs in my system has a sedating side 
effect. I feel calm and relaxed today. Plus I have Sarah Vaughn on the stereo
behind me. BOY am I ever chilled out!

	Peeve: One (or more) of the drugs in my system has been playing hob
with my sleep cycles. I collapsed, exhausted, in bad at 6:00 pm last night, 
but I was up every three hours after that.

Well, that's it from the mind (and the sinuses) of me.

 Mike

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God I miss the 80's.
					Jenny G.
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