Full screen this video, stare at it for the specified 20 seconds, then look at someone’s face, or your hand.  This is cool.

My voice is better, not normal, but not gone or totally froggy as it was.  The left nasal passage is totally clear, right side still partially blocked, but no more blood and the mucous production is slowing down.  Another month or two and I should be good.

I woke up from a ZOMBIE DREAM this morning.

The rules for infection were the usual, you had to get bitten.

Killing them required Windex.  That’s right, the window cleaner!

Bothell had been infected, so had Portland.  We had just completed a weeks vacation in Portland where in the process of trying to find a rental truck we encountered them.  I dunno how I discovered Windex would kill them but I did.  But unfortunately, I quickly exhausted my supply of Windex, and by this time the whole city was pretty much taken over so going into a store there to look for Windex was a no-go.  Instead, we were trying to get out of the city and look for an uninfected store in the suburbs to buy out their entire inventory of Windex refills and sprayers to battle Zombies but that’s when I awoke from the dream, when it was just getting fun!

Well, the earlier part was fun too, see we had taken a cruise ship to Portland of all places, but acquired so much junk at various surplus and antique stores we had to rent a truck to move it all from our hotel room to our ship for our return journey.

I dare anyone to psychoanalyse that!

Tonight was a lot like last night, slept in about 1-1/2 hour fits interspersed with periods of having to get up and clear my nasal passages.  Around 3:30am bloody snot in abundance from the left side, but now I can actually get air through it most of the time.  Voice is getting better.  This cold is moving from the unbearable to the merely annoying.

Today had to report to my CCO, only two more times and the 2nd time will be my out take where I’ll get to return to something akin to a normal life again.  With any luck I might actually be healthy by then.

Just read today that people with AB blood type are 82% more likely to develop age related cognitive impairment and also at higher risk for heart disease and stroke.  Oh goody, something else to look forward to (my blood type is AB+).

Last night I slept in segments of about an hour and a half between which I’d have to get up and clear my nose and throat.  Continuing the experiment of only taking an expectorant during the day, still producing copious quantities of mucous but nasal passage on the left side feels totally clear and the right side still blocked but not as bad as it was so maybe in another month or so I’ll be healthy again.

I want to thank everyone for their prayers.

Coughed and choked and gagged until 5:30AM last night when I finally was able to fall asleep.  This virus is really getting old.  I had been on Pseudofed, Chlortimetron, and Robotussin DM generic knock-off’s 24×7, but today tried going without the Pseudofed and Chlortimetron to so as not to try myself out so much and hopefully expel some of this crud.  And while it did result in copious amounts of green goo, I still feel all stuffed up, terrible, and have between no voice and an intermittent frog voice.

I believe somehow there has to be some greater good that comes from this.  I try to remind myself that it’s only transient, but a month into it that gets harder to believe.  Job, I am not.

It’s funny sometimes how we can think we’re on the top of the food chain, and then some thing that is so small we can’t even see it comes around and devours us.  Reminds me of Fat Bastard, I’m bigger than you, I’m higher on the food chain, get in my belly!

Sometimes, I can’t help but think these cold viruses are created in the labs owned by the companies that produce the non-working cold remedies to boost sales.

Another repetitive dream theme I’ve been having lately is one where I’ve been drafted into some sort of military.  Being as I’m 56, this would seem unlikely but in the dream they’re basically drafting everyone, replacing our economy with a totally military controlled one.  Given the general trends in our government, this doesn’t seem totally outside the realm of possibilities.

Watching the last three minutes of the Superbowl where the Seahawks snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.  Why they opted for a pass when they were one yard from the goal line, and it was only 2nd down, is just unfathomable.  Up until the last three minutes it was a good game.

Last night, I slept good and had pleasant dreams.  Had a fun one of riding a motorcycle across a beach (I’ve never owned a motorcycle which made the dream especially fun).  Yesterday evening I was able to get at least one side of my nose to the point where I could breath through it.  Also had dreams of wandering around unfamiliar territory.  Wherever I was had a light pleasant feeling to it, warm weather, near the ocean.  I haven’t been to the ocean in more than six years owing to travel restrictions.  Those go away April 9th, I’m looking forward to seeing the ocean again, hearing the waves break.

I don’t know what the rest of my life holds, I don’t even know what today holds, but I’m looking forward to it.

This morning I mostly have a frog voice which is somewhat better than no voice at all.