The weather has recently turned colder from a mild, but never boiling season of Summer. Whether climate and temperature actually affect the transmission of viruses I do not know. But since turning cold, I have been blessed with what is always described as the 'Common Cold'.
Tell anyone you've got a cold and you'll be ridiculed for even mentioning it. It's only a cold, it won't do you any harm. No long term damage will come of it. So why does it make you feel so bloody dreadful, the sensations such a virus inflict on you make you feel very unhappy, depressed and in what can only be described as major discomfort.
To blow or not to blow, that is the question. A runny nose is so paramount in a cold sufferers symptom list. If you blow it your nose becomse sore and feels like it's throbbing. Choose to let it drip and face the front of your head being tickled with the finest of fibres ultimately causing 'AH CHOO'! You will clear up the mess.
Drinking water, hot tea, sachet's of 'Beechams for Cold and Flu Turbo Extreme Edition', amongst swallowing an array of 'Cold and Flu Symptom Relief' pills. Our bodies are thrown in to turmoil as it battles to decide whether the Virus is the largest threat, or being drowned by paracetomol, ibuprufen, phenylephrine hydrochloride.
For what is considered the most mundane of ailments, that nobody should take a 'day off' for the common cold proves it still lives up to it's name in my case. It is common for me - every year as far back as I can remember, and I get one usually within the first several weeks of winter, meaning it tends to be cold.
