Back home, I laid down on the couch while my mom took a small dropper full of saline containing the phages. She put a dropper full of it in each of my nostrils, and I snorted it up. It stung a little bit, but it wasn't unbearable. I stayed on the couch for an hour or so afterwards, just to make sure the phage solution could settle and start working. 

Phage viruses are amazing "creatures". They aren't technically life, since they lack the ability to adapt and evolve, and don't have DNA, but they are still intelligent enough to target specific cells and bacteria. Under a microscope, a phage looks a little like a robot. It has a large diamond shaped head, which is where it keeps its RNA (the stuff it uses to replicate itself), attached to a long, screw shaped body. It has 8 spidery legs, which it digs into the targeted bacteria. Once it finds its target bacteria, it latches onto it, and uses a small, needle like appendage to inject its RNA into the bacteria. The RNA hijacks the bacteria's reproductive system, and replicates the phage virus instead. A single phage virus can replicate itself within the bacteria 40,000 times in under an hour, before the bacteria itself gets so full of phage viruses that it explodes, releasing 40,000 new phage viruses. The new phage viruses go looking for more bacteria to hijack so they can multiply themselves another 40,000 times each. Phages are practically indestructible, and they only die when they run out of bacteria to hijack. 

My body was infested with these Pseudomonas-destroying phage viruses within an hour or so of the first treatment. That night, my sinuses started to drip, which was a good sign. By the next day, I had a constant stream of snot and blood flowing down the back of my throat and out of my nostrils. I was in intense pain, but I was so glad to get rid of my Pseudomonas infection. I didn't care how painful or nasty it was. Pseudomonas was finally dying and leaving my system, and I was gonna survive.