Nothing Says "I Love You" Like a Humidifier!

I got sick with mono just in time for Valentine's Day!! How wonderful to have everlasting memories of "the kissing disease" on Valentine's Day! However, Brent gave me THE MOST PERFECT Valentine gift to show his love... A HUMIDIFIER!! This I know is love! As a little girl I never could figure out why some of my siblings were blessed with the bestowal of the humidifier when they were sick... and why others (like me) never got the blessing of "the creepy machine". It pretty much never occurred to me that the presence of the humidifier was directly related to the illness… I just thought it must depend on who was “the chosen”; whom mom and dad remembered to get the humidifier out for, whom seemed most sick, whom mom and dad had the most concern for. I guess I was pretty lucky to never have the miserable diseases which required the humidifier… but boy I always felt like I got shafted!

The beginning of February I was lucky enough to have THREE doctor appointments and some FUN lab tests done all within a week! The myserious illness began when I started feeling crummy... but my crumminess quickly turned into STRANGENESS! I came down with crazy swollen eyes. I pretty much looked like a fat Chinese person. I went to the doctor Friday night... and again Saturday morning because the swelling around my eyes kept growing so quickly! (Luckily I saw two DIFFERENT doctors on Friday and Saturday... although I was quite embarrassed when the Saturday morning doctor figured out I had been seen by another doctor just the night before!) The Saturday doctor had me do some lab tests and diagnosed me with Mono (although he wasn't quite sure what the heck my eyes were doing)! Exciting! I admit... I was rather delighted to miss a little work during "busy season" with the excuse that I needed to go home and take a nap! Within a week I was a lot more humble! Brent was nice enough to take me back to the doctor again the following Friday. I felt quite RIDICULOUS!! Who the heck goes to the doctor THREE times in one week?! I was hoping maybe the doctor wouldn't recognize me since my eyes were now normal... (and now my neck and throat were swollen beyond belief). When the doctor entered the room Friday morning he immediately told me to sit in the chair next to Brent (I had been sitting up on the patient exam table). I was MORTIFIED. Brent had missed school just for me and had called to make the doctor appointment (I couldn't talk cause my throat was sore). I JUST KNEW the doctor was about to deliver his "hypochondriac" speech to me and tell me to buck up and deal with being sick. How embarrassing to get this speech right IN FRONT of Brent! He would think I was such a WIMP! Oh the agony of humiliation! Oddly enough... the doctor might have been thinking I was a hypochondriac... but instead of saying anything he went crazy and started prescribing me all kinds of WONDERFUL pills and calling other doctors to find out what else he could give me. I love modern medicine!! After bringing me home from the doctor, Brent was so sweet and wonderful and went and got me some exotic varieties of yogurt, made me jell-o jigglers (to keep me entertained while I was sick), AND went and borrowed his parent's humidifier to help me feel better! Seeing the humidifier just spoke right to my heart! The perfect gift of love for Valentine's Day! I would have used it regardless of whether or not it would make me better or worse! I felt so special to finally get the bestowal of "the humidifier"!! (Don't worry Mom and Dad... I know you love me and took fantastic care of me when I was sick! I know I was never in need of the humidifier when I was young, otherwise you would have bent over backwards to get one for me.) I love how individual and unique we all are... I love we all have different ways of feeling love and recognizing love... I love that I got the best Valentine gift of love ever!

P.S.For your educational enjoyment... Cajun Pepper can change your life, and your throat... behold:


One morning I was desperate to find any kind of RELIEF from my sore throat. I finally turned to the Internet... practically the source of ALL truth and light! I googled "sore throat relief"... or "sore throat home remedies" and found there are some REALLY crazy people out there! I found cures that would make you ill if you accidentally swallowed them, cures that would take the enamel off your teeth... and I found a cure involving gargling with Cajun Pepper!! Can you imagine?!! I don't think I would dare gargle with that stuff even if I was feeling super, duper, incredibly WONDERFUL and healthy! I wanted to cry for the poor man who posted such a remedy! Deliberately gargling IN YOUR THROAT with cajun pepper??! Holy SMOKES!! This man posted a very lengthy testimonial of Cajun Pepper. Apparently forming a habit of gargling with Cajun Pepper changed this man's life... and can change your life also! I wonder if the life expectancy of his throat might be shorter than the life expectancy of non-Cajun Pepper gargler?