Tue 15 Jan 2019
If I’m reading Mr. Google correctly, and several sites are telling me the same thing, I’m at Stage Three of the cold I’m suffering through now. No details.
This is the first cold or similar illness that I’ve had in 20 years, and I can tell you, I don’t like it one bit. I’m doing everything all those websites say to do, but they also say that the best thing to do is to rest as much as possible and= let the cold take its course.
So, no more trying to fight my way through it. I’m going to take a few days off from the blog. (If you saw how many typos I’ve made in just typing up these three paragraphs you’d know exactly what I mean.) I’ll be back as soon as I can!
January 15th, 2019 at 10:04 pm
While you’re resting read a good book!
January 15th, 2019 at 10:09 pm
Fully concentrate on taking care of yourself and taking it as easy as possible. Feel better.
January 15th, 2019 at 10:17 pm
On second thought, read a bad book and fall asleep doing it.
January 15th, 2019 at 11:36 pm
Hope you get better soon. We’ll be patiently awaiting your return to health and blogging.
January 16th, 2019 at 12:05 am
Get well soon Steve!
And rest and sleep are terrific for that.
January 16th, 2019 at 12:22 am
Don’t hesitate to get medical help. I always hesitate, but not always wise.
January 16th, 2019 at 6:54 am
Get feeling better! When you say you have a cold it doesn’t sound too bad, except your whole body generally feels like crap.
On the other hand, my wife just shared a joke the other day (knowing how “tough” I am the few times I am sick) saying that when a woman is in childbirth, she now knows what a man feels like with a cold.
Take care
January 16th, 2019 at 7:56 am
Take it very easy, Steve. I hate being sick.
January 16th, 2019 at 8:20 am
I say the HELL with taking care of yourself!
There are thousands of truly needy deserving fans out here, staring listlessly at their computer screens and hitting the Mystery*File link every few minutes in forlorn hope. But do they find the Latest Lewis?? No-oo-ooo! Because Steve is lying in his luxurious bed, watching cartoons and drinking Singapore Slings served up to him by dusky native maidens.
Well I hope you enjoy yourself Steve, while the rest of us huddle out here in the cultural wilderness, starved for insight.
Seriously though Steve, take good care of yourself. Don’t worry about us. We’ll be all right… I guess… maybe… somehow….
January 16th, 2019 at 9:11 am
I just got over a bad head cold myself — I sympathize. Take care of yourself!
January 16th, 2019 at 10:39 am
Someone in my family (OK, it was me) came up with a Scientific Theory:
Everybody gets one cold.
You catch it early in life, and you have it forever.
The lucky ones among us have periods of remission.
Some are longer than others.
What we all end up doing is adjusting – learning to live with it.
THIS TOO SHALL PASS.
Anyway, that’s what I do.
Give it a try.
January 16th, 2019 at 5:19 pm
Get well soon.
Hot toddies work, or at least after them you don’t mind having the cold.
January 16th, 2019 at 5:20 pm
The last time I had a “real bad cold” it turned out to be flu. Just sayin’… Maybe you ought to go to the Doctor and find out. You’ve had this far longer than a cold, I believe. Flu can do one in. Better to make sure. Best wishes.
January 17th, 2019 at 12:46 am
Thanks for all the good wishes, warnings, cautions and advice. It’s only a head cold, of that I’m sure, but I’d forgotten how miserable they can make you feel. I’m at stage 4 right now. I’ll be back posting on this blog by Friday, if not before. Right now, that hot toddy sounds real real good.