I know, the title of this post grossed you out completely drew you in, didn’t it?

Joey and I took Laura’s advice.  On the way home, we stopped at CVS and purchased our very own NeilMed Nasal Saline Flusher Thing.  I carefully read the directions and filled the squirt bottle up.

Then my heart began to race.

PANIC began to set in.

I think I must have turned white, because Joey said, “Here, I’ll go first.”

He put the nose flusher up to his nostril, squeezed, and water poured from the other side of his nose.

I screamed.  “AAAAAAAAAUGH!  I…I can’t do that.”

“You can, and you will,” Joey said, confidently.  But just in case, he got my cell phone all ready so he could video the process and send it to family and friends.  (He loves me SO MUCH, doesn’t he?)

Here’s the problem with me.

I’m scared of water.

I can’t hold my breath under water very well, and if I am under water, I have to exhale from my nose.  I’ve never touched the bottom of the pool in the deep end (always failed that in swimming lessons) because having that much water between me and oxygen makes me panic, and I scream under water and flail for the surface.

While probably more information about me and my water phobia than you really cared to know, it kind of helps you understand what you are about to see, which was recorded last evening on my cell phone.  The quality stinks, but I think you can get the idea.

Disclaimer: There is lots of screaming/melting down here.  Just FYI.

After several tries, and a lot of that saline stuff going into my lungs due to screaming/flailing…I finally succeeded at flushing my nose.  It felt…weird.  Almost awesome.  I was extremely dizzy, but Joey claims that’s because I had myself so worked up about my fear of drowning.

OK, recalling this is making my heart rate increase exponentially.  I need to stop before I start screaming again.

Perhaps I need psychiatric evaluation.