I have caught yet another cold. I must say, this is something of an oddity for me. I don't usually catch colds, but in the last three months I seem to have had enough for a decade. Every few weeks...
It starts in the sinuses. They run. No. Not run. This is to running what Niagara Falls is to a trickle down a rock. A box of Kleenex, a few rolls of toilet paper, and then I move on to the towels. I sleep with wads of toilet paper shoved up my nose. Glamorous, me.
After a day or so, it decides to do the grand tour and works its way down my poor sore throat and into my lungs. It likes the surroundings so well, it stays for a while. This brings on the ceaseless coughing, spasms wracking my body day and night with very few pauses for breath. It leaves me weak and slow and feeling more useless than usual. Throat still raw, head full of concrete and Jell-O, I weave about like a drunkard and need frequent naps. Need but don't often get. Sleeping at night is either a patchy affair punctuated by sudden onslaughts of coughing, or a drug induced, NyQuil fueled weird-dream fest ending in confusion and a sense of what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-my-mind muzziness that can only be dispelled by two or three cups of strong tea and a nap.
My usual difficulty motivating myself to go outside, out into the world, is compounded by these colds until I am content to remain in the same clothes for days and eat stale bread with the bottom-of-the-jar scrapings of peanut butter rather than go out.
Don't worry, the kids eat regular foods...I won't let them do without just because I'm not feeling like life is worth the effort right now.
Sadly, I am now out of NyQuil or its generic equivalent and am left to my own devices until I win the lottery and can buy more. Holy cats, one could make a house payment for what that stuff costs! And? At least around here, one must produce one's identification to purchase, and even then may be denied if it's deemed one has been buying too much of the stuff of late. This isn't the same as showing ID for the stuff they make meth from...this is because some teens somewhere figured out that swallowing an entire packet of those little gel-capsules would induce some kind of moderately enjoyable, drug-taking effect...just before it causes all kinds of havoc on their body and possibly damages their brain or kills them outright. Fun!
If I could win the lottery as easily as I am lately catching colds, I wouldn't mind so much feeling like a bucket of fresh-brewed hell. As it is, I am simply thankful that Campbell's makes pop-top soup cans and my kids don't mind oven baked chicken nuggets more than one night in a row.
If you'll pardon me, dear reader, I have to go hunt down another roll of toilet paper...or a clean towel. How's your health?
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