Summer colds

[mrissa]

Summer colds seem entirely unfair. In the winter you drink hot beverages, lemon chamomile tea for me, or cider or cocoa or other herbal teas, or you switch them around and get a different one each time. In the winter you curl up under the afghan. In the winter you drink hot soup.

In the summer none of that seems right. Even if you're cold enough for the afghan, who wants to wrap in an afghan in July? Even if the tea feels good on your throat, July is lemonade time. The body gets confused.

Not that I have a cold, mind you. markgritter has a cold. I merely have almost no energy, swollen lymph nodes, and a persistent need to clear my throat. This last is almost certainly to make sure that my empty office (kitchen, etc.) is paying full attention to the things I'm not saying and has nothing to do with being sickish at all. I would not dream of having a cold. Nuh-uh.

Comments

[pameladean]

Aha! I wondered, I did. Mmm, I thought, incubation time, I really almost never go anywhere, oh, right, picnic.

I've got one too. It's not too bad so far, or at least any given bad patch lasts about ten minutes. I knew I shouldn't have run out of Zy-cam.

Pamela

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, I'm pretty sure Mark didn't have one as of the picnic, so some nefarious third party most likely passed it along to both of you and thence to me. I mean, not to me, not to me. I don't have a cold. Would not even imagine such a thing.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

I suspect the thumbprint of the Roo. :( He's snotty and coughy today too.

Sorry, guys.

Toddlers are germ machines.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

But he is our germ machine.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's a sinus infection? ;-)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

This is an open post, so you know he can read it....

[cooperati.livejournal.com]

try this, i got so sick recently that my face broke out. i'm still dealing with this. runny noses and a headache is fine if i can just keep it to myself, but lord help me if i break out and express to the world i've got a sniffle.

-=T=-