On The Mend

It’s been so long since I’ve been sick that I almost forgot how miserable a little summer time cold can make me. I remember now, though, and I don’t like it one bit.

I think this old cold started out as a hay fever thing. There are so many allergens in the air that I’ve been looking into Santa Fe dehumidifiers or other air cleaning devices. I really have to do something because I don’t want to be sick like this again.

In all fairness, though, our home air quality is much better than it was just 15 years ago. Back then, we heated our house with oil and that’s just a little less dirty than the coal furnace that was in this house several decades before that. The biggest problem was that the coal dust from that old furnace has settled into the walls. When we remodeled, we were shocked at how much coal dust was in this house.

Anyway. I’m feeling better and looking for ways to not let this happen again. It’s bad enough that the outside air wreaks havoc on my sinuses; I need the inside air to play nice with my health.