remedies

I currently have a horrible canker sore in the most painful place possible in my mouth. By Friday night, my capacity to chew, talk, and smile was inhibited by the stinging and throbbing right along my jawbone. I was to the point of taking Advil when Charlotte finally convinced me to use Grandma's treatment. I've always been too wimpy to try it, but I was getting desperate.

The treatment is as follows: Lick your finger and dip it in salt. (You see where this is going?) Take a deep breath and press your salty finger on the already throbbing and stinging wound in your mouth and hold it onto it for a second before releasing it. It really really hurts. The following minutes look something like this.

Note my fingers clenched in pain.

I have undergone this treatment three times, but my sore is definitely improving. Here's hoping for a pain-free tomorrow!

Set your pity for me aside and take note of the new hat I finished making yesterday! I learned how to make pom-poms and I'm hooked. Sarah and I spent all afternoon wrapping, tying, and trimming colorful, fluffy poms.

While I was on a self-treating kick this weekend, I invested $12 into a pair of Sea-Bands, which apply pressure to the Nei-Tuan acupressure point on the wrist to relieve motion sickness, which is something I suffer from in unreasonable doses.

I wore them in the backseat on the way back from the mountains and I give them a thumbs up so far, but the true test will be Tuesday's bus ride home from work, which has to this point left me in a state of serious, temporarily debilitating nausea. Fingers crossed that these aren't a hoax.

*What ailments have you treated lately?
*Have you tried either of these treatments?