outch phil. I have to say if it didn't sound so painful it would've been
kind of funny. I wasn't laughing though. I'm glad everything is back to
normal!
Jenifer gilley
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 8:28 PM
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.
>
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