Hey, when Mike read a copy of that message last night he asked Phil a 
question:  "Why on earth keep your eyes in whilst in the shower?"

I guess maybe it saved some of that damage . . . so each to his own, I say!

--
Carol
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vicki and The Rors" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 4:47 AM
Subject: Re: Up The Spout


> Amen Carol.
>
> Vicki
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Carol Pearson" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 5:16 AM
> Subject: Re: Up The Spout
>
>
>> 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.
>>>