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Here I am, minding my own business on this lovely Sunday morning; drinking my Tito’s Bloody Mary and flipping through the latest edition of Self, when I stumbled across this handy, little nugget of information:

“Neti pot lovers, beware.  It’s highly rare, but using the sinus-clearing devices with water straight from tap could let (wait for it) a brain-eating amoeba enter your skull and, um, kill you in days…”

I have a feeling the neti pot (or amoeba farm) sitting in my shower right now is not going to be there for long.

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Oh Leila,

I'm so happy to see that you're blogging again. Yes, I haven't touched my neti pot in quite some time. And Yes, I too am still a hypochondriac.

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Hi Leila,

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Leila,

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Hi Leila! I don't mean to send you into hypochondriac mode again, but have you ever considered whether you have hypoglycemia? I'm only asking because I have it, and I sometimes go into hypochondriac mode when my blood sugar is low- I've been convinced that I had carbon monoxide poisoning, anaphalactic shock and melanoma (among others). Here's a link about the correlation between hypoglycemia and hypochondria. http://www.uncommonforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=2474

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