Face hugging and nose watering

[mdlbear]

My CPAP pillow arrived Monday, and my nose-watering pot came this morning just as I was leaving for work. Here are some first impressions:

The CPAP pillow is a great design, and a size that looks good for traveling. The shape keeps my head in the right place, keeps me on my side, and gives lots of clearance for the nost-mask and hose. So it's particularly unfortunate that it's too hard and too high for comfort. I woke up Tuesday morning with a stiff, aching neck, and went back to my old memory-foam pillow.

I'm going to trace the CPAP pillow's shape onto some memory foam (from the other pillow sitting in the closet because the flower_cat doesn't like it) and see how that works.

My neti pots (nose-watering pot) arrived this morning, skillfully packed into a box that was just barely big enough. Guess they ship a lot of them. The package also contained an instructional video on a CD meant to play on a PC. Worked fine on Linux (with totem) once I mounted the disk and identified the video file.

Worked beautifully, though I had a little initial spillage. Gentler than the NeilMed kit, but seems to be at least as good -- maybe better -- at cleaning out the gunk. The video and instruction book both had directions for drying the nasal passage after washing, which is something the NeilMed kit omitted.