So, on Christmas morning I woke up with a killer sore throat, which seemed to come and go quite a lot over the next month or so. And then finally it was gone. But what lingered was this rather icky nose and sinus infection, which also got worse and better, then worse again, etc. Finally after almost four months of this I decided it was maybe time to mention it to my doctor?

In this case I decided to just ask my friend/neighbour/student/GP Agustín yesterday while we were having English class at his place. And so now I am squirting this stuff up my nose a couple of times a day and hoping it will work, otherwise the next step will apparently be some sort of steroid spray. Ick.

For those who previously suggested rinsing out my sinuses with salt water, yeah yeah, I know. But I always seemed to either forget or just couldn’t be bothered mixing it up and snorting it (which I’ve done before and really hated). Agustín told me that this Rhinomer stuff is pressurised so it is much more effective than snorting… and wow, he was right about that. This stuff shoots straight up my nasal passages to my eyeballs and then swooshes its way back down and around all the behind-my-face cavities again before finally trickling out through various orifice openings. I’m impressed! I also wish I did this about three months ago.

And I hope you weren’t eating while you read this…