Family Gatherings And Nasal Passages

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Thank goodness the weekend is over and all the worker bees have returned to their duties. My older sister had a delayed curried shrimp dinner party yesterday afternoon. She had planned it for New Year's Day, but we got six inches (15.24 cm) of snow the night before, and she figured it was too dangerous for us old folk to drive. I certainly agreed.

These sort of gathering have always gotten on my nerves, but it's worse now that there are all sorts of small children around. The entire entertainment consist of the grown-ups trying to dictate the children's behavior and teach them how to act like adults long before their time. I hate seeing the people I grew up around become teachers instead of friends. .

My siblings are all stodgy assholes, and they're attempting to teach each other's grandchildren how to be stodgy assholes like their children are. Thank God my children and grandchildren live all the way across the United States, and are for all practical purposes, unavailable for this bullshit.

Of course, they are available to my ex-wive's families who I can only assume does the same thing when they get together. I'll bet your family does the same thing. My siblings don't have anything to say to each other much. All communication is about the children's stupidly acting like children. My siblings and I were raised by a couple of school teachers.

My two older sisters are retired school teachers, but neither me or my brothers finished college, and so my brothers are worse about "teaching" any available, totally indefensible kid around than even my fussy sisters are. They're lucky I don't feed their children to the hogs to save them from a fate worse than death. Of course, nobody in my immediate family raises hogs anymore. We buy 95% of the food we eat from the grocery store.

I left my sister's house pretty soon as I finished eating. I was sneaky about it. I eased out the back door and pretended to go sit alone in my car for a while, you know, to digest the huge meal. After about ten minutes of working in the crossword puzzle book I keep in my car, I cranked it up as silently as possible, and slowly drove out the driveway and got the hell outta Dodge.

Nobody I know or have known uses salt water to clean their sinuses. I learned to do it in my late teens when I began to adopt yoga as a way to stay fit and limber, for all the good that did. They appear to think it's undignified in some manner. I don't understand this, but it's real to them and I've learned over the years to leave them to their ignorance. "Where ignorance is bliss...", ignore them.

Now, with the silver colloids I'm just beginning to use, I may have found an ever better way to kill the germs and bacteria that gather in my sinus cavities and Eustachian tubes. for the last fifty years I've used about a teaspoon of regular table salt mixed in about six ounces of tepid water to clean my sinuses.

In the past, when I did this routinely, I would hold the glass of warm salt water under my nostrils, close off one side at a time, and then inhale/suck the water up into the one nostril until I felt the water hit the back of my throat. Then, I would close off the open nostril and blow against the clamped openings to force the water up into my sinuses, and then, into my Eustachian tube on the same side as I put the water into, then do the other side.

The salt water kills most of the accumulated germs and loosens the snot, and when I finally blow my nose that pretty much does what it gonna do when I do that. It's always been my intent to do this to kill the bacteria there. If my sinuses and other head cavities are infected it burns like crazy. I'm not joking. Try it. You will know what I mean by "crazy".

The salt water running over the infected areas kills the germs, but it really hurts. The anticipation of this pain has stopped me from doing it when I'm feeling achy like I have the flu, and thus stops me when I need to do it the most, but eventually I have to do it or go to a doctor. This is very undesirable. I do it anyway. Aiiiyyyyeeeee!!

With the silver colloid water I don't have to do any of that to kill the germs in my head cavities. I filled an eight fluid ounce brown spray bottle with the silver colloid. This bottle was designed to hold hydrogen peroxide. That's why it is brown. To keep light from messing with the peroxide, and why it works well for keeping the colloid water. It produces a very fine mist.

Closing off one nostril at a time and sucking up the misty spray does two things. It pulls the silver colloid up into my sinuses and Eustachian tubes, but it also pulls it down into my poor, mistreated lungs. I smoked two packs of tobacco cigarettes for decades, until I stopped three years ago.

The real difference in me using silver colloids to do this instead of salt water is basically that the salt desolves and dissipates in a very short amount of time, and the nano-sized silver particles last longer. I don't know how much longer or if they actually last longer at all. With the crap I'm coughing up I can readily see how much good it's doing. It's easier and less messy, and it doesn't hurt at all. That's improvement. Either that or I'm pretending it is, and that's okay with me.

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