Oooogh. I feel like a Banana Slug has crawled up my nose and declared war on a Giant African Snail. The result is about the right color, too
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Yeesh, sorry to hear it! If you have access to distilled water, I'd highly recommend NeilMed Sinus Rinse: it's power-washing your sinuses, hopefully getting rid of any germs before they can set up camp and cause real havoc. I haven't had a cold in 5 years since starting it, though I do get sinus infections annually. The packets might be hard for you to get, I'd suggest stocking up on them if you can find a line. Most people get away with doing it daily, I do it twice a day, and since you deal with students I'd recommend you do it twice daily. I prefer this bottle over the more common Neti Pot as I have three fused vertebrae in my neck and just can't contort myself appropriately. The company has offices in India and Singapore, so you might have availability there.
But I cannot stress the importance of distilled water too strongly! As much ground water pollution as you have there, along with the mineral content, you'd really need to make sure you find a reliable source! There have been people who used tap water that were killed by brain parasite infections because their tap water came from a river that was not adequately treated.
Hopefully you can get a ready supply of hot soup? Regardless, I hope you have as good a holiday as is reasonably possible. :-)
Thanks for the info, but I've never been able to get over the squick factor of any form of sinus rinse. I don't want to spend the following half hour face-first in the toilet. 😝🤢
The infection has moved out of my sinuses, though, and into my lungs, anyway. So while I'm still snotty, it's from a different source.
This, I'm used to. My brother and I used to get bronchitis every Christmas when I was a kid. Which is why, to this day, I hate the color pink. Children's amoxicillin is some seriously nasty crap!
I freely admit the squick factor is not easy. I've learned that for me the trick is a deep exhale followed by swallowing while squeezing the bottle. It's very rare that I gag, and I have a very low gag reflex. But it is very effective, that I can vouch for.
I'll bet! I remember one horrible season of sickness I lived off of black beans and fried rice from one of my fav restaurants in Phoenix - Chino Bandido Takee-Outee - and hot and sour soup. Lost a fair amount of weight, but at least I was consuming calories and getting some nutrition. That may well have been when I contracted walking pneumonia after I started at the police dept., I don't remember.
If you ever find yourself in Phoenix looking for food, I highly recommend it. As it happens, one of the original co-owners went to HS with my brother! It was the weirdest thing. I walked in one day and she came up to me, staring at me, and said "Do you have a brother named Rick?" "Yes...." "Did he go to Sunnyslope?" "Yes...." It's not like they dated or hung out, she just happened to know him from HS.
Alas, her husband died, and Eve is now the sole-owner as far as I know. They're Chinese/Mexican/Jamaican/Caribbean. On your first visit tell 'em you're a newbie and they'll give you samples of all of their meats and beans and rice. You can get anything on beans or rice or in a burrito or quesadilla. My personal fav is a jade red chicken black bean burrito. Eve thought it was patently ridiculous, then she tried it and said it was very good. They were featured on Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.
They used to do $0.25 wings, before wing became a thing. On the weekend they do black bean burritos that are quite excellent. And you always get a snickerdoodle with your meal, on the weekend they do a specialty cookie, sometimes a volcano cookie: chocolate with confectioner's sugar.
They also have a granite statue, made in China, of their mascot, the panda in the sombrero with the pistols. They had to take out part of a wall to get it in. I happened to be there when it arrived. Eve and her husband were vacationing in China and saw these incredible statues, thought the guy could do one for them, and tracked him down. He had trouble getting the sombrero right in the concept drawings and models until they sent him one.
A friend of mine had a used paperback book store a mile away, we'd hang out there and on Friday and/or Saturday nights we'd hit Chinos and then go back to someone's house and hang out and BS or play games or something. You DO NOT want to go there during prime lunch rush!
Wow! Lots of good advice. I can't imagine when I'll next have a need or opportunity to go to Phoenix, but I will file this one away as a Must See if it ever happens.
But I cannot stress the importance of distilled water too strongly! As much ground water pollution as you have there, along with the mineral content, you'd really need to make sure you find a reliable source! There have been people who used tap water that were killed by brain parasite infections because their tap water came from a river that was not adequately treated.
Hopefully you can get a ready supply of hot soup? Regardless, I hope you have as good a holiday as is reasonably possible. :-)
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The infection has moved out of my sinuses, though, and into my lungs, anyway. So while I'm still snotty, it's from a different source.
This, I'm used to. My brother and I used to get bronchitis every Christmas when I was a kid. Which is why, to this day, I hate the color pink. Children's amoxicillin is some seriously nasty crap!
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http://chinobandido.com/
If you ever find yourself in Phoenix looking for food, I highly recommend it. As it happens, one of the original co-owners went to HS with my brother! It was the weirdest thing. I walked in one day and she came up to me, staring at me, and said "Do you have a brother named Rick?" "Yes...." "Did he go to Sunnyslope?" "Yes...." It's not like they dated or hung out, she just happened to know him from HS.
Alas, her husband died, and Eve is now the sole-owner as far as I know. They're Chinese/Mexican/Jamaican/Caribbean. On your first visit tell 'em you're a newbie and they'll give you samples of all of their meats and beans and rice. You can get anything on beans or rice or in a burrito or quesadilla. My personal fav is a jade red chicken black bean burrito. Eve thought it was patently ridiculous, then she tried it and said it was very good. They were featured on Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.
They used to do $0.25 wings, before wing became a thing. On the weekend they do black bean burritos that are quite excellent. And you always get a snickerdoodle with your meal, on the weekend they do a specialty cookie, sometimes a volcano cookie: chocolate with confectioner's sugar.
They also have a granite statue, made in China, of their mascot, the panda in the sombrero with the pistols. They had to take out part of a wall to get it in. I happened to be there when it arrived. Eve and her husband were vacationing in China and saw these incredible statues, thought the guy could do one for them, and tracked him down. He had trouble getting the sombrero right in the concept drawings and models until they sent him one.
A friend of mine had a used paperback book store a mile away, we'd hang out there and on Friday and/or Saturday nights we'd hit Chinos and then go back to someone's house and hang out and BS or play games or something. You DO NOT want to go there during prime lunch rush!
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