For about five days now I’ve been dealing with the common cold. I’ve made a few observations along this journey:
1. Tissue with lotion isn’t all it’s hyped up to be. Sure, it feels soft when you’re wiping and blowing but it does nothing for keeping your sensitive skin around the tip of your nose from peeling. My nose is raw. On a side note, I also figured out putting Vaseline lip therapy on my nose does wonders. The only problem with that is everything stuck to the tip of my nose like , my hair and on one occasion, the dog’s hair.
2. Being less than five feet tall and only 99 pounds, I can’t take adult doses of medicine. You really do need to read the warning labels!
3. When you wake up with a nasty head call, coffee won’t taste very good. In fact, I poured one cup out because I thought I had put salt in it not sugar. All that nastiness lining your mouth during a cold really does change the way things taste. Everything sugary tasted more salty to me.
4. I tried one of those sinus rinsers. I didn’t do the Neti pot thing ( as seen on Oprah years ago), but I did try the bulb. Good Lord. Be careful, I almost drowned myself.
5. I talk really loud when my ears are plugged.
6. Products from the “natural foods” store are expensive! Are they worth it? I think maybe! I’m using a Sage and Aloe throat spray. It tastes awful but definitely brings relief. I’m also using Echinacea and Goldenseal drops. Again, tastes awful but I’ve read quite a bit about Echinacea and apparently does help. It’s amazing what you can learn when you look things up on line. For instance, I should keep this bottle of Echinacea around because it also helps heal snake bites. (someone told me, if it’s on the web, it must be true) 🙂
7. Use those disinfectant wipes! You don’t realize how easily you can spread germs unless you really think about it. While holding a nasty tissue, I realized just how many things I was touching around the house and possibly spreading my nasty germs. A few things are started wiping down include the fridge handle, the garbage cabinet handle, the TV remote, bathroom light switch and flush handle and my cell phone.
8. I can go a couple of days without a shower. I looked nasty before the shower and didn’t look any better after the shower. In fact, with the wet hair, I looked worse.
9. It doesn’t matter how much you pay for your hundreds of television stations, there really is nothing good on TV.
10. I take back all the times I said, “men are babies when they are sick.” I am a whiny little pain in the butt when I’m ill. I know, I know…I’m a whiny little pain in the butt when I’m not sick, too….
