Phil, been there!  Did it with my eyes and washing hair very badly as a ten 
year old . ...

Wait till you do it choking often.

Seriously, I hope those eye sockets and the nose feel better!

I still have damage to my nose from when I damaged it years ago in this way. 
It's not really very relevant so I will spare everyone the details but it 
cost me months of real illness and still is a problem today.

All I can say is "Come, Lord Jesus!  We want out of this place soon!"

--
Carol
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 1:28 AM
Subject: Up The Spout


> This is a true story.
>
>     So it's this way.  I was in the shower the other night,
> minding my own business, and praying, as I always do while
> showering, and something terrible happened.  I was nearing the
> finish line, as it were, that is, I was standing under the mighty
> blast of the shower spray, washing off all the hand soap I had
> been using, plus the shampoo from my hair, when it happened.
> Since Colorado is considered to be a semi arid place, it is pretty
> dry.  I mean, 18 percent humidity is getting pretty high for us.
> My sinuses, therefore, are always quite dry.  In the closed in
> shower stall, well, it is a bathtub with a shower, it gets mighty
> humid.  So my sinus get pretty, moist, shall we say?  It's good
> for them, though.  Anyhow, I'm rinsing off, as it were, and the
> soap and shampoo is washing away.  My nose was a little runny, not
> like a bad cold, but just near that stage due to all the moisture
> in the shower.  Perfectly normal.  right?  So, as the soap is
> running off, I instinctively sniffed.  Wrong thing to do but it
> has never happened before so how would I know not to do it?  I
> suddenly, and without warning, realized a soap bubble had formed
> over my left nostril and that little sniff snuffed it right up the
> old nose.  My sinuses caught on fire.  It felt like somebody
> struck a match under my nose.  Fire.  I instantly began blowing
> like a bull on the attack figuring that was the best way of
> clearing my sinuses.  No soap, I mean, no help.  The fire spread
> the harder I worked at clearing my nose.  I really started praying
> then.  I felt the fire crawling up my sinuses, higher and higher,
> and eventually, I have artificial eyes, my left eye, the socket of
> the eye, burned like a forest fire.  Now for those of you with
> weak stomachs, skip this part.  Not knowing what to do and being
> in terrible pain, the Lord not seeming to answer my desperate
> prayers, I popped my left eye out in hopes the pressure of the eye
> in the socket would lessen the pain.  Nope.  It didn't help.  My
> eye socket burned like the worst sun burn you have ever
> experienced.  I started praying even harder.  In fact, I was
> begging.  Fire.  Help.  I continued getting worse.  Now, I have
> had soap many times in my eyes, mouth, ears, or just generally on
> sensitive skin where it burned.  I won't get into any details
> here.  But I have never in my life, snorted a soap bubble up my
> honker.  Fire.  Anyhow, it was about five minutes before my eye
> and my nose began to stop burning.  It took several more minutes
> before it finally stopped.  This was after a considerable amount
> of blowing, too.  So, take heed, because if you snort a soap
> bubble, it burns like hell.  Maybe the Lord was trying to teach me
> something.  About hell maybe?
>
> Phil.
>