A Cold

Well, they come and go don't they.

Not a lot you can do about it but wait until your immune system despatches the virus.

Just bugs me that these facial tissues, normally quite soft against your skin, become like sandpaper to my nose which becomes sore and red raw from the abrasion when I am getting through a whole box in less than a day.

Bad head from trying the whisky relief last night.

Shall stick to the honey and lemon tonight.

I feel for you, and you're right about the tissues.

I must be a bit of a rarity as I only catch a cold maybe once every five years or so but, when I do, it's a real doozy!

Get well soon.

Ena

So yoo are flooin

I have had me floo and covid vaccinations this year, but last year I missed them both.

Tommy, a cold isn't the flu. It's nothing like flu. I know men get man-flu and still go to work and go about their normal business, but if you have flu then you're grounded and, if you're lucky, you can just about crawl on the floor. I've had 24-hour flu twice in my life, and there's a massive difference.

Fairly confident it is only a cold, not flu or covid.

Breathing easier today than yesterday, just the bad head and raw nose, and a little too much coughing and sneezing.

(Had both jabs this year. Could not get flu jab last year. Nobody in my neck of the woods managed to get one. When getting jabbed last month, they sort of referred to last years debacle where we could not get them.. Nobody has mentioned why though, which does rather surprise me, as in past we have usually learned why difficulties occurred, such as when somebody had spoiled the whole batch of vaccine by unplugging the storage fridge.)

Keep warm....plenty of toddies..reet as rain..

Ena

On about the man flu thing, and apologies if you have heard this story from me before, but when I was young I got colds, bad colds, coughs every year, which I put down to working with the public, in my younger days I worked a lot in shops, and when I was in my 20s I once got three separate bad colds, literally one after the other, and when I caught a cold, I had medicines on standby, because I found that the cold first started in my nose, then the infection spread into my throat, and then down into my lungs where the cold would end its days as a very bad cough, so first of all at the sniffle stage, tickley runny nose, it was just tissues, then as it went into my nasal passages, towards my throat I would lose my sense of taste and smell, which I hated, and I subscribed to the saying that with a cold, you start to get it for three days, then you have it for three days, and then it goes away in three days, so as the cold started to make my sinuses sting, and the next stage would be the sore throat at that point I would start with the Nurses, the medicines being Day Nurse and Night Nurse, or the Beechams and Hot Lemon and or Lemsip, I had them all on standby in the cupboard, and then there was a pill you could take, which would dry up a cold for 12hrs, but I have forgot the name.

The final stage of the cold was the chest infection part, and then it was drowsy Benylin time, which when taken with alcohol, it made a cold worth having, and this went on for years, and through all of these bad colds I would just take the propriety medicines and just carry on working, I just waited for it to go away, which off course it always did, that was until I was 32yrs old, when in the October I caught a bad cold, and it started off as a cold, but after having it a week or so, it didn't go away, it just stopped where it was inside me nose, sinuses, throat and lungs, and after about three weeks, I still had it and it was going worse, and I was feeling very ill, and no longer working, and then I didn't want to get up in a morning, and I realised what I had and I thought 'gee whizz' this is proper flu, the influenza, but it started off as a cold and caught hold of me, so after about a week of stopping in bed and being very ill, this coughing started, and it was coughing like have never coughed before, I had already had a cough for the best part of a month, but this coughing was on a far worse scale, I was coughing all night, and I started having difficulty breathing, so I then decided to visit the doctor for the first time in years, and after thorough examination the doctor informed me that I had a, he said a as in A pneumonia in my left lung, at the top of my lung actually, and he prescribed me some antibiotics, I had several visits to the doctor, I got better but only very slowly, and then I lost me voice, and I did not get it back, I was croaking for about six months, and then my breathing did not feel right, so it was back to the doctors and after some tests, I was informed that I had asthma and I was put on two inhalers, a steroid and a reliever, having to have so many poofs of each a day.

I couldn't speak properly, and I couldn't breathe properly without help from the inhalers for, as I have said, for over six months.

When I went outside and the weather was cold, the cold would irritate my left lung, and a coughing fit would ensue, and I only got properly better after a spell of really warm weather the following August.

So I think that I may just know the difference between Man Floo and Woman Floo, because I once nearly bloody well died from it

I very rarely get a cold but I put it all done to the fact that I try to include onions in whatever I’m cooking.,when I was s teenager every night when I came home from the ‘Emp’ my mam would have me a boiled onion ready which I really enjoyed. . salt and pepper and the water it was cooked in absolutely delicious and I never ever got a cold.

Tommy,

Yes, a friend of mine had a similar experience, and ended up in hospital with a collapsed lung.

It is always difficult deciding when you really need to seek medical assistance isn't it.

I had flu in 1958. That was the Asian Flu. It was bad, but all the rest of the household were far more sick than me, one ending up hospitalised. I think the whole district were ill: we got a food parcel, fresh fruit etc provided by the local Baptist Chapel. Not that we attended there, but it was the nearest place of worship to where we lived.

Fortunately, I do not think I have had flu again since then.

And, prior to this, I cannot recall when last I had a cold: must have been decades ago. So I guess I can't complain.

Momac.

I eat a lot of onions, not anything to do with health beliefs, but because I like them.

Sometimes, I have even chopped and fried some onion before I have decided what else I am going to include in the cooking.

Garlic too.

We may be on to summut here because, I have onions every day in salad and, or cooking and I've only ever had a ' put me on my back flu' Twice in my life, I get colds, runny nose, coughs all the time but, they're just an inconvenience, onions might be the key,

I'm not fishing for an argument (although it's inevitable) but ..... analyse this -

When I was a kiddie, I had bronchial pneumonia. I couldn't breathe properly, nearly died. Local doctor, who saw to me, said I'd caught it from playing in an open drain in our yard.
Anyroadup, because of this, probably, I've always seemed to be immune from colds, flu, etc..
I've never had a cold or flu until ........... I had the Covid vaccination two years ago.
Since then, I've been hard breathing and chesty.
And I was FORCED to have it!

I get an e-mail every couple of weeks, inviting me to the local clinic to have a 'flu' and ;Covid' vaccination.
Well, they can shove it up their arse, 'cos I'm having no more!

Well the Covid vaccines do muck about with your immune system, they con it into thinking you have got Covid, and so you then produce Covid antibodies, as opposed to unclebodies, and that must take up the resources of your immune system, and possibly weaken it against other diseases ?

Tonks,it does make me wonder,I've had the Covid twice even after having the vaccinations..I was in two minds this year,but still had them done..watch this space....if I get the Covid again that'll be it,no more.

I have had Covid four times and had every injection and been ill after them all.They can keep it this year and give my jab to someone else this year.

Well, I'm alright Jack