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.
wow…seriously, wow. I am utterly amazed that you’ve never touched the bottom of the pool in the deep end. How is that possible?? Touching the drain was my favorite part of swim lessons!
Anyway, good job for surviving the nasal saline flush. I survived too and couldn’t believe that I could actually breathe. And then this morning it was 10x worse.
I swear, I need a travel size. Plus, they really need to warn you about what will come out if you are extremely congested and for there not to be anyone around in the event you get embarrassed.
I also don’t do well in water. I failed diving in swim lessons. My younger brothers were always further in swim lessons than I was. I actually took swimming as a PE class in college to make myself a better swimmer. I did learn a lot and improve but my instructor thought we should all be olympic quality!! That plus there was actually a written final that nobody did well on and I can say swimming is the only class in all of college that I got a D in!!
wow, it’s like you were holding a gun to your haid, seriously…