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Woke up today with a mild sore throat (like I get with allergies, not illness) and some slight vertigo that gradually wore off. Related?

> One party tries to get it to work, the other party says "the government is broken, let me show you how broken it can be."

I used to think that was true, but there's a lot of stuff they could try to get to work that they sit on their hands over. Preferable to the side that works to make things worse but still terrible for the average citizen.

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She flew on a harness over the crowd and landed on a stage right in front of us. It was sick

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I've been extremely stuffed up and coughing at night maybe like once or twice a week for the past month. It's been so random and unexplained. Is this the same thing you're experiencing?!

Here is the Gym video

Wind blowing over from Ohio/Pittsburgh? It was bound to make its way over

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You're good

Ha, Thats a fun story. I always liked him. You should post that song to the sub!

YEP

I mean, as a layperson I know that if your pulse ox reading is under 50% that you are in serious trouble... that seems pretty damning.

I wish I could share a picture, but there’s a whole bunch of white gunk on my HoneyWell fan, which is, notably, NOT an air filter. It was not there a few days ago.

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He dubbed me this after playing a joke song my band made about man eating sharks riffing off “ I want Candy”. I was 17 and it was just huge to me.😎

Oof I’m not surprised it was rough.

Haha, it’s a good pic, and I’m glad show was good! Better behave yourself with the other half… 💀

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I don’t recall it being in such a bad condition, granted it’s been years since I’ve last seen it, my memory could just be bad tho.

Only !!

Preface: not a doctor. Just someone with fucked up sinus anatomy.

Your sinuses, the empty-ish spaces in your head have release valves (it's not really a valve, but an opening with membranes lining it, but anyway). On some people these openings are functional, they don't get swollen, their anatomy is proper so they they aren't blocked by other parts of your nasal anatomy, they don't have polyps or a deviated septum. Those folks probably rarely feel changes from pressure maybe other than in an airplane because the system is pretty open and pressure can't build because air is 'stuck'.

For those of us with shitty sinus anatomy, deviated septums, allergies, this closes those release valves. So there's just air trapped in your sinuses. The pressure changes, the amount of space that air takes up feels different. And since it's pressing on tissue, bone, face stuff, it hurts. This causes irritation, which causes swelling, which puts you in a horrible feedback loop of stuffiness and pain.

I cannot currently hear out of my right ear because there is so much pressure built up in there.