Happy & Healthy
15X SNOT STRUGGLES
I already told you here that the snot season is. As a little girl, I always had a runny nose and was a regular at the ENT doctor and the homeopath. I started by eliminating milk and sugar from my diet and my runny nose disappeared spontaneously. Unfortunately, we can't always protect ourselves against the snot virus and when my resistance is low, I immediately reach for effervescent tablets and nasal sprays. Although these helpers always seem to arrive too late...
1. Tissues. Where are they when you need them?
2. The Supradin is flying off the shelves. I can tell you: only drink that stuff during the day. I once made the mistake of effervescing it right before bed. Don't do it. Unless you have wild plans for the night. But you don't have those when you're team snot.
3. You wake up with crusts in your nose and a mouth as dry as the Sahara. Yep, the struggle is real.
4. Your bedroom is a breeding ground for bacteria. The pile of tissues is your new duvet and there are painkiller strips and bottles of cough syrup everywhere.
5. You practically live in the shower. Anything to get rid of that snot, right? Steam is the best remedy.
6. A round of tongue wrestling is also out of the question. Because yes, then you could be put on a ventilator right after. See, and that's why I prefer to date in the summer.
“I'm already counting down the days to summer.”
7. Steaming over a bowl of steaming Vicks water that is too strong to even stay over for ten seconds. I always put in too much.
8. With that same Vicks, you completely slather yourself before going to bed. And of course, you do that with your makeup still on. Read: Vicks in your eyes. Life is tough.
9. You no longer know if you're too weak to go to the gym or just lazy. This also applies to going to work, meeting your friends, or even getting out of bed. It's basically just a really good Netflix excuse.
10 That eternal runny nose. My lovely colleague Adeline (pronounced as è-de-lájn) once went through an entire box of tissues in ten minutes, that snot machine just wouldn't stop.
11. Your nose is as red as Rudolph, and not that kitchen prince from 24Kitchen. It doesn't matter how silky soft your tissues are or how much aloe vera and almond oil are in those damn things, it's going to be a good mess anyway.
12. And after it’s red, you get flakes. You have to start applying Purol again. A shiny nose isn't exactly charming either.
13. Add a kilo to that, because all that sucking on Strepsils, Antaflu, and other throat lozenges brings in quite a bit of sugar.
14. And yes, that dinner from Friday can also be blown through your nose. You can't taste anything anyway. You can nicely compensate for that with point nine.
15. That eternal picking of your nose. Not so charming. But it has to happen and it always happens when it's dead silent and you actually want to sink through the ground.
I'm already counting down the days to summer. Hatsjoe.
