I think that I attribute this to disease progression because I got my ducts cleaned in my house last May. Every morning when I wake up, I adjust my bed to be in a seated position and I sneeze three or four times.
I think I need to speak about my morning sneezes. I wake up in the morning, pretty groggy, and it takes me a moment to get my head together. Once I adjust my bed to be in a seated position, I sneeze and sneezing when I am barely is a little bit tricky!
Or at least, it’s gotten kind of tricky and I need to adjust how I react to them now. I am really having a hard time controlling my hands right now. That fact. kind of scares me! For example, a few days ago, I was about to sneeze and I grabbed a bit of a toilet paper from the table by my bed. But when I went to ‘catch’ my sneeze, instead, my finger went up my nose to the second knuckle, which obviously hurt a whole bunch! I am not even awake, and I made a strange sound of pain!
After doing that, I had to change my game plan. Now, I just let myself sneeze and when I sneeze and entails all the snot and spittle that ends up on my face each time! I think that that’s kind of gross, but it takes me a moment until I can blow my nose and clean off the spittle on my face.
My daytime sneezes are a game-time decision based on how I am feeling regarding the urgency of my sneezes. Most times, it’s just snot and spittle, but sometimes I can catch them and that is MOST comfortable for me!
Blowing my nose is very difficult for me now, so I like to ‘catch’ my sneezes meaning that I’d like to have the tissue in front of my nose as I sneeze so then I don’t have to push to get air out of my nose. That is very difficult for me to do now!
Sometimes, when I’m blowing my nose, because I have to push so hard to get air out of my nostrils, my nose makes a weird farting noise! The first time Sean heard that he didn’t know what it was and I told him that it’s just residual air leaving my nose.
My body is not normal anymore and does not function as it should. This is a hard reality for me to accept. I can’t blow my nose anymore?!