A doozy!

When I was pregnant with Trey (back in the 1800's ;) and my sinuses swelled a bit with pregnancy, I started using Ocean Nasal Spray at the recommendation of my obstetrician to help keep my sinuses clear. A few squirts of this saline water in each nostril at the beginning of my shower followed by a big blow out at the end of my shower allowed me to breathe freely all day.

I began to notice that when Dave, Ryan, and Drew were bringing home colds, they skipped over me and I concluded that keeping all the mucous out of my nasal and sinus passages was helping to keep me healthy. As such, I've used this great product ever since. In the past 14 years, I've been the healthiest one in the family with a only two or three extremely brief sniffles. This was in great contrast to the numerous colds leading to bronchitis that I had been prone to prior to using the Ocean Nasal Spray. I'm a lifelong convert.

But alas, even my clean nose couldn't protect me from an evil chest virus that has been flying around the metropolitan area. It took a direct hit at my lungs and started last Wednesday night with a vengeance ... pain in the middle of my chest, extraordinary weakness and dizziness, and a cough to kill. I got out of bed finally on Monday afternoon and am starting to return to full speed. I understand that the cough with this one lingers for weeks, but I am thankful to be back in the ranks of the functioning. It was nice that we had Lost season 3 to watch while I was down and out :)

What a doozy!