I have been nursing a cold since last Wednesday. I foolishly thought I was better this morning and, while the sore throat has, luckily departed, the clear nose I was feeling was only the after affects of my 12 hour Afrin which wore off shortly thereafter and left me a mouth breathing miserable nose-less thing.

My husband is always preaching about the dangers of using Afrin too often because apparently you will lose your sense of smell and your nose will bleed for the rest of your life or something so I am trying not to over use but, lordy, that stuff is a miracle that you shoot up your nose. I gave myself a shot at 11 AM and then, at 11 PM, exactly, I lost all breathing functions.

When they say 12 hour, they are not kidding. You could set your watch by it.

So even though I have an absurd amount of work to do, I am going to bed because it would be too cruel to my husband who has to wake up at 4:30 am if I were to wake him when I sneak in there to get the Afrin and not go to bed, so I will have to call it a night. I was going to try to mouth breath and work but it is unbearable and I keep forgetting to breath and then I get light-headed and almost pass out so it is generally a bad plan.

This cold better call it quits soon. I have work to do, darn it!

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