This winter season was an odd one for me specifically.
I spent a lot of time fighting off illness.
It’s pretty ironic that once I sort of let my guard down a bit over Covid, I end up dealing with respiratory illness much of the winter! For sure, I’m super thankful that it wasn’t Covid and I’m always keeping up with the latest booster. But I also discovered that there is something else that is vitally important to our respiratory health. And that would be superb indoor air pollen levels. It took a visit to the dentist for me to finally learn just how important superb indoor air pollen levels are. My wife finally had enough of me dragging myself around all winter and made an appointment with the dentist. I dislike going to the dentist and she knows this so it wasn’t enjoyable so she pushed it on me. At the same time, I sort of felt as if she wasn’t taking no for an answer when it came to skipping the dentist’s appointment! Honestly, I was a little anxious because I had not experienced a winter season such as this since I was a child. So I was sort of wondering if there was some sort of underlying issue that I needed to be aware of. But that’s always terrifying when you are going into a dentist’s appointment thinking that something could be genuinely wrong. Well, there was an underlying issue that resulted in my respiratory illnesses all winter. The dentist suggested I call to get proper ductwork cleaning and ductwork resealing. Once that was done, she suggested that I install a HEPA filter and get rid of the paper heating and air conditioning air filters my superb friend and I used for a decade. I did just what the dentist ordered and have felt superb since then.