mdlbear | Walking; watering my nose (Reply)

Cross-posted to healthy_fen and mdlbear.)

Took a slightly shorter-than-usual walk today: down to the little shopping center at Sand Hill and Sharon Park, and back by the same route. The main goal was to get a NeilMed Sinus Rinse kit at Longs, but they were on sale and out of stock. Picked one up at Walgreen's on the way home.

I have this neti pot kit on order, but my nose was hurting now, and I got a pointer to the NeilMed Sinus Rinse kit in comments to this downwhen post. If nothing else, it will give me an additional data point for comparison, and looks to be a bit smaller as well. I'll also get to compare salt packets.

Squirting salt water into one nostril and having it come out the other is an odd experience, but neither painful nor particularly disgusting.

Unlike the neti pot, which works by gravity and pours in from the side, the Sinus Rinse has a vertical fountain action. It remains to be seen which is more effective; all I can say is that it does work. Even after a single session, my nose is a lot less congested than it's been in months. It also got rid of the congealed gunk in my nostrils, and soothed the irritation caused by the combination of decongestants and the facehugger.

The kids were, predictably, disgusted (I suspect it would appeal to 5-year-olds). The flower_cat is intrigued in spite of a painful experience with it a couple of years ago, possibly due to a too-concentrated saline solution. I'm sold on it.

My pedometer currently reads 10552 for the day.