Accidentally Snorting Black Mold

It was a Saturday. We were running out the door and I was feeling a little stuffy from pollen and dog hair so I grabbed my homeopathic nasal spray (which I have used and loved for years) used a couple squirts and threw it down on the bathroom counter as we ran out the door. We were moving so quickly, I didn’t really even look at what I was doing but I acted on ‘autopilot’. That night I woke up in the middle of the night with what felt like knives and marbles simultaneously in my throat and so stuffy I could barely breathe. Sunday morning I assumed I had a bad cold or some sort of allergic reaction. All of my symptoms pointed to an allergic reaction: post-nasal drip, swollen and sore throat, watery eyes, sneezing, coughing but something wasn’t adding up. That it until I saw my nasal spray later that day. I picked it up off the counter and through it’s clear cap noticed that black mold had grown all over the top of it. And I had shot that black mold right up into my sinus cavities.

If you can imagine severe seasonal allergies with watery eyes and sneezing, mixed with an ascending plane where you are unable to clear your ears, mixed with little marbles stuck in your cheek sinuses and throat, you will have a pretty good picture of what it feels like to have shot mold spores into your head. It was miserable the first couple days but eventually you just have to laugh at yourself. If nothing else- I will be more careful about checking things before they go into my body!