2/12/2006

Getting rid of the inhaler

i've been having this sipon and ubo for the last 7 days already and now it has evolved from a harmless sipon and ubo into a torturous SIPON at UBO. *sneeze sneeze and i have done nothing except buy myself a Vicks inhaler. my first time to resort to a menthol and that other compound inhaler. the only times i can try and pamper myself. when i am terribly sick. somehow i feel i'm taking care of meself. literally. and i always thought it looked cool to be looking all sick and wasted. found relief. satisfying. it works. at least for the first few days. it's not a cure, though. the inhaler. coz for a moment, it fools you by making you think your nose is clear and free from all the problems but just as you try to leave your nose alone, everything goes back to it's sorry situation. it's never a cure at all. i dont remember the last time i was sick. it msut have been years. whenever im infected with ubo and sipon, water therapy usually does the job. sometimes, my self-medication will tell me my prognosis looks good and if i'd just let my lagnat alone, it'll die by itself. and more often that not, it does. but that was until yesterday. when i finally decided it was official. i am sick. my head hurts so bad im starting to doubt if my brain still looks like one, and hasn't been replaced with green mucus with all the hard sniffing, sneezing, sucking in and out, blowing and all the gross thing that i do that somehow makes the feeling more manageable. the side of my ears started to hurt. some veins i think in my neck started to swell already. and the worse thing is that i have been eating less and less. because for 7 days, i've been suffering from gustatory sensory deprivation. tangna, galunggong na lang nga eh di ko pa malasap lasap. paborito ko pa naman. so yesterday, a trip to the pharmacy. had no idea what to buy so i asked for suggestions on what stuffs to stuff myself with. kill the disease! please! im sure i've heard about amoxicilin and carboseistein (oo spelling nga) my entire lifetime. but i can't remember. so now, thank God! i'm still sick. it's been only a day? ano ko si son gokou? i'm still as sick as a makahiya na inihian pa nang aso. *sneezes on the monitor i'm still holding on to my dear inahaler, though. even if i'm aware that it will never cure my UBO and SIPON. it's only a temporary relief. *coughing like a dog infected with TB. but the good thing is i've decided to treat the problem with a permanent cure. and now i feel (hopefully) that soon, this problem will forever disappear and fade away.... maybe it's time to get rid of the inhaler. and maybe it's time for this country to get rid of her's. awwwooooooooo---- *howls