Feel better, WS.
You are my hero.
If I were truer to my Italian-American heritage, I would have a whole second kitchen in the basement, but the second fridge really does come in handy, especially the freezer part. It actually came with the house. It's a zillion years old but still running. My guess is it will run longer than the new, noisy one in our kitchen.
I went for a bra fitting today for nursing bras. It took forever and the size is much bigger than I could have imagined, so I'm glad I didn't try to guesstimate it.
Is there any specific active ingredient that seems better than others?
I use Afrin. That's what my doctor recommended specifically. I don't know about any other version.
We have baby classes all day tomorrow, and I'm so tired today. Hopefully I'll find some energy tomorrow.
I use Nasonex nasal spray, and it helps a whole lot.
Nasonex is a corticosteroid, though. As is Nasacort, which I also use, but those are for every-day use for best results. Afrin is used as needed.
Yeah, Afrin is nuclear bomb, my head is killing me and I need to breathe NOW motherfucker medicine.
I was advised not to use nasonex during my pregnancy but normally I can't live without it.
I ended up having a pretty extended back and forth with my cousin Timmy, and it went much better than I could have expected. Totally civil, and he's not as hard core as I thought. And I'm glad I finally spoke up, after biting my tongue for decades. And I'm super double glad that a good friend from college is a Civil War historian with a PhD who will answer questions in a heartbeat on Messenger.
Now I have to type up some kind of memory about my grandmother* for her memorial tomorrow, at which I'm not going to be present. I'm not really sad - she was 99 and died peacefully. Mostly sad for my dad and aunt, a bit wistful because she was the last of my grandparents and the one I was closest to. But I am procrastinating on doing this (in my defense, I am kind of pre-migraine) and I have run out of time. Blah.
* other side of the family
I'm sorry you had to do that tonight, smonster. But I' m glad you had her in your life.