Phil, that's horrible! Well, I guess you took one for
all of us. No sniffing soap bubbles anymore!
Todd
--- Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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