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If you really want to get rid of a cold you have to stay on top of it...like I did yesterday. I had already been awake for like 24 hrs cuz sometimes, I just can't sleep. Once I've been awake for several hours past when a normal person would have already been asleep, then I start to crave more of that feeling of "euphoria". It makes you feel like you are drunk or high or something, and sometimes you have visual & auditory hallucinations. It may seem kinda strange to some, but I guess it has become like an addiction for me sometimes. My record going w/out sleep is 48 hrs. I didn't really plan that either, but after I had been awake that time for over 40 hrs I figured I'd try for the 2 day mark. I was reading somewhere once about some of those people who have tried to break the record. One guy, after 8 days I think it was, died because his body just shut down. 17 year old, Randy Gardner set a record of 264 hours in 1964, but most recently, last year, Tony Wright broke that record with 266 hours. I can't even imagine what that would be like, and I certainly wouldn't want to die trying to break a sleep deprivation record!

So, anyway, the winter cold started getting me Monday so I started consuming all of the cold medicine, herbs, & vitamin C & zinc I could get in me. I hate it when a cold takes me over. I guess its just one of those things where I can't stand to be feeling helpless & letting something get the best of me....so I couldn't let myself go to sleep & let the cold get me. Besides, if I can't breathe I can't sleep, and if I go to sleep I can't breathe. I had to keep constant doses of all I was taking in me, and I wasn't gonna go to sleep until I felt like I was enough ahead of it to be able to sleep. So finally, yesterday morning, after 40 hours awake, the stopped up nasal passages opened. I took another dose of everything & finally went to sleep. Thanks to Marksy for the breathe right strips, too, cuz they really help keeping your nostrils open to help w/breathing. They make your nostrils wide kinda like a , but I don't care as long as I can breathe.

Here are a couple of pix I came across while browsing around on the internet yesterday...some serious body mods...