Health Goddess

Learning to breathe

In and out, in and out.

When I woke up this morning, I and was pleasantly surprised by how smoothly the air had flowed into my body when I breathed. It’s been so long since I have had allergic rhinitis that I have forgotten what it is like to inhale without any difficulty.

I sat on my bed and experimented again. Closed my eyes, breathed in and out, in and out. And it felt so good, the movement of delicious air down into my lungs.

Granted, it was due to the duo action of anti-histamines and nasal spray but for the time being, I just reveled in breathing. It made the two-hour wait at the clinic and my doctor’s diagnosis (90% of my nasal passageway is congested) worthwhile.

It’s amazing how one can forget something as basic as breathing. I have grown so used to this stuffy nose of mine that it never occurred to me how much I would miss the feeling of the air flowing smoothly through my nose.

I have forgotten, and missed, a lot of things.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s