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Sunday, November 08, 2009

The Wonders of the Neti Pot

I know I've written before about how impressed I am with my neti pot. I bought one last spring after it became the focus for more than 30 minutes of a book club meeting that I was hosting. I can't remember why we were discussing them but then again quite frankly I can't remember what book we were discussing either. I had heard of them before, but I had never seen one. The book club members who used them raved about them. They swore that I had walked by them numerous times but just never had noticed them. That is the mysterious way of the neti pot. Alright maybe I'm exaggerating slightly about the last part but lo and behold they really were in the cold medicine section of the pharmacy, and I must have walked by them several dozen times in my lifetime.

This Tuesday night happened to be book club. We read The Red Tent by Anita Diamant and had a really great conversation about it. It's one of the best books I've read in a while. Of course though there was a lot of laughing. The more I laughed the more I felt my voice give a little. It was probably from the laughing though, right? I mean we were laughing really hard. That's what I told myself on Wednesday too. I felt fine.

Thursday morning though my voice had begun to give out and by Thursday afternoon it was pretty much gone. I begun to refer to it as my sexy voice. Call me crazy, but the Big Giraffe didn't seem to find it very sexy. In fact, I noticed him edging away from me, when he was actually in the same room as me. I still felt alright though. I meticulously used my neti pot from Tuesday night through this morning. My voice is on its way back and, knock on wood, I have yet to develop a runny nose, cough or fever. I'm sure some of it is that I slept the sleep of someone with African Sleeping Sickness, but I give most of the credit to the neti pot.

Now of course I just have to remember to hide it again lest it become used as a toy teapot by the boys.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: I can't explain the mysteries of the neti pot, but it does work.

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