Nose

I don’t get it! Why is it, it seems, humans are the only animals that get stuffy noses? I’ve seen animals sneeze, but I’ve never seen an animal with a stuffy nose. It’s a good thing for horses since they are incapable of breathing through their mouths. Humans can do that so they have an alternate, but it just isn’t fair that our best breathing devices is sometimes out of service.

We all know how it feels to have spent the night breathing through out mouths and we wake up with our tongues feeling like leather or suede. Sometimes blowing one’s nose doesn’t make it any better. Sometimes it makes it worse. Even worse, sometimes it helps just a little frustrating any hope of relief.

I recall flying into San Francisco one day with some mild stuffiness however as soon as the plane started descending I started feeling piercing pain through out my entire head. As the half hour of descending continued it continued getting worse. It took me two weeks to get back to normal after that.

As I write this my nose is stuffy. It’s the kind of stuffy where it wouldn’t be a good idea to fly, and it it isn’t the type to be cleared by a purge into a tissue. What's up with that?