24 September 2007

Seeing the sinus related problems mentioned in the comments (thanks folks!) kicked my brain into second gear and I started shoving my stuffed up noggin over a pot of boiling water a couple of times a day. It feels SO GOOD, like Vicodin good (only for only about 5 minutes). I find myself moaning with happiness for the few minutes that I can tolerate the steam because I don't hurt for those few minutes and a few minutes afterwards.

I feel maybe 5% better today which makes me a bit hopeful again and also makes me feel guilty that I'm not answering emails (or doing any of the other 4000 things that I should have been doing over the past weeks). Its just faster to update here than to email everybody, but I will, I promise!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have you ever heard of a neti pot? It's supposed to help with sinus issues, and if steam helps, then maybe irrigating your nose warm water will help even more...

Jennifer Lavin said...

Yeah, I've been hearing about that a lot lately. I'll have to see about that one day. It looks DISGUSTING, but you know, whatever works!

J. Cullinane said...

Could always rub a little Mentholatum under your nose. *squirm*

Jennifer Lavin said...

I got no problem with that, at least I think not...that's like Vapo-Rub, right? Back when I was singing every day and performing I put Vapo-Rub under my nose or on my throat at night periodically and I would wake up in excellent voice.