Almost three weeks ago Jeremy came back from ComicCon. And he brought us all a little gift...sinus infections! Yay! I've never had one before and I gotta say, they are so much.....fun?
No. No they are not fun. They are crappy and debilitating, and they don't go away on their own no matter how much you take care of yourself. When, six days in, I still had yellow crap coming out of my nose at the pace of gallons a day, I gave in and went to the doctor. Now I'm on pain pills, steroids for the swelling, and a massive dose of antibiotics that will probably take me over a month to recover from. Thanks Hun!
Josh got it too, and has been fighting fevers and whatnot for almost two weeks. He just gets the antibiotics, and so far, so good. Hopefully he gets better without needing anything stronger or more invasive.
The one kinda good thing that has come from this is that I FINALLY understand Jeremy's eating habits. He constantly craves salt and fried foods and junk, and then complains about how yucky he feels.* For years I've done what I can to support his learning to eat well, but I never understood why the habit got started. I mean, his body literally HATES that food. He has the fastest negative feedback to junk food I've ever seen, so why on earth did such a strong eating habit develop? One answer: sinus infections.
To explain, last night we went out to eat, and I ordered what I thought would be an amazing dish or morracan veggies with quinoa and couscous. Yeah, tasteless. Not because of the food, but because my infection would not let me taste it. Thankfully Josh got chips, beans and cheese and they were so salty, they were AWESOME. I hate the whole plate (Josh didn't want it anyway - he had filled up on crackers before dinner). I told Jeremy how wierd it was that I craved such a salty dish, and he said "Now you know how I felt most of my life."
Jeremy probably had a chronic sinus infection for years, or at least major problems with his sinuses, when he was a teenager. But he lived in a state that didn't provide insurance for children and his parents owned a small business that meant they couldn't afford health insurance much of the time. So he went untreated. And then ate only the food he could taste - salty, fried, junk food. Sure, it caused (and still causes) a host of other problems, but I tell ya, I totally get it now. Cause man is it hard to force yourself to eat something you can't taste. Hard, I tell ya.
So now I get it. I get why he tends to eat the way he does, I get why everyone complains so much about sinus infections (yes, they do, in fact, suck hairy rat balls) and I get that I seriously am never waiting to report a sinus infection to a doctor again. Yuck!
*On a side note, Jeremy recently decided to try eating vegetarian, gluten free, and nothing fried. Its amazing! We are finally eating the way I would always choose to eat, and both of us feel so freakin good! (except for the whole sinus infection thing)
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Oh man. Household sinus infection no fun. But the dietary conversion sounds pretty awesome. Are you including Joshua in the meatless lifestyle too. Given his love for carbs, I shan't think he'd miss it too much.
We aren't really including Joshua. He doesn't eat much meat anyway, but he eats a ton of wheat products which Jeremy and I are also avoiding. Honestly, he's such a picky eater that I don't want to push him too much. If he eats, brilliant! As long as its not toxic, anyway
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