https://bunn.dreamwidth.org/ bunn - Dreamwidth Studios Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:54:30 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios bunn personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/11405577/2704035 https://bunn.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://bunn.dreamwidth.org/704302.html Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:54:30 GMT https://bunn.dreamwidth.org/704302.html September 12th, Pp went to a do with some ex-work colleagues, and picked up a cold, which he promptly gave to me. He had it for a week. I had it for September, and October, and December...&nbsp;I got royally peed off with it.&nbsp; Kept thinking it was clearing up.&nbsp; It did Not.&nbsp; Either I was streaming, or I was bunged up, or I was an ectoplasmic nightmare of green goo.&nbsp; When you can't breathe at all through your nose, your tongue shrivels overnight into a horrible leather strip, which is just no fun even if you can rehydrate it in the morning.&nbsp;<br /><br />Eventually, I made an appointment to see a pharmacist (even though I was thinking: well, it's a cold, it's viral, what can they do?) But pharmacy appointments for minor ailments in Wales are free and easy (unlike doctor's appointments which are hen's teeth) so I thought it was worth a go, specially since there was a specific 'sinusitis' appointment type available under the Common Ailments program.&nbsp;<div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;Pharmacist heard my woes, said I had chronic sinusitis and gave me a steroid spray with a built-in antihistamine (because, he said dubiously, scanning my history of allergies, It Might Be That Again.)&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br />Anyway, the spray fixed it within a couple of days. Amazing. Brilliant. What a relief. Modern medicine, I love it.&nbsp;</div><br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=bunn&ditemid=704302" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://bunn.dreamwidth.org/704302.html cold me public 3