For the first time in I can’t remember how long, I caught a cold!! And, while I don’t have a Y chromosome, whatever little bit of testosterone is swimming around in my female bloodstream staged a coup this past weekend, and it came out sounding like a whiny-sick-man who has never had the common cold before! You should have seen me – I divided my time between sniveling on the sofa and sniveling in bed. I did, however, manage to get my hair done Friday before allowing those pesky germs to completely take over my nasal and throat passages.
Once Friday night rolled around, I was downing Alka Seltzer Plus like I owned stock in Bayer, and I was most grateful Hubby had stocked up on Kleenex while at Publix the other day. And did I mention the tea!? Let’s just say there was a point this weekend when I thought I was going to float away.
If Hubby loved me, he’d have made me some chicken soup, was one of my whines (paraphrased). So Hubby pulled out some chicken soup he had made weeks ago from the freezer. Then I whined it was frozen, so he defrosted it for me in the microwave. When that was done, I put the (mostly) defrosted soup into a pot on the stove to heat up.
Hubby: “Don’t you want to microwave your soup? It will be done faster.”
Me: “I like it better heated on the stove”
Hubby: “Sometimes I think you are a lot older than your birth certificate says” and goes on to tell me about these “newfangled” inventions that heat food faster.
I “faithfully” take a vitamin cocktail that has kept me pretty healthy the last 7-8 years. I think this may be my second or third, full-blown cold since I started that cocktail, aaaaannnnnd I am guessing my resistance was lowered because I had not taken one vitamin since I entered our condo – that is until I caught the that darned cold. Needless to say I began my vitamin regiment again the second my throat got scratchy Friday morning.
I have an autoimmune disease (Graves) which leads to a higher risk of catching an illness. Before I got on my vitamin program, I would be sick 2-3 weeks many a month! That was nuts. So, to figure out what I could do to help myself, I had my doctor do a full blood panel, I read the results along with my doc, and then we figured out where I was deficient, and what I vitamins I needed to take to get healthy. And after all that, I still have to get the mega dose of Vitamin D yearly. *grumble*grumble*
I hope you and yours are well, and you don’t catch whatever it was that laid me low this weekend.
Stephanie B says
So sorry you aren’t feeling well!! My day yesterday started with my husband telling me his throat hurt and after looking at it I insisted he go to urgent care. Sure enough, he has strep throat. So glad I got him to go in right away. Nothing worse than a sick man lol. I hope you feel better soon 🙂
Ann says
I was worried at first that it might be strep, Stephanie – my throat hurt that much. It wasn’t though. I am sorry your Hubby’s was, and hope he is better soon!
Ann
Tami Lemons says
I hope you get better soon! I too, have to fill up on vitamins to remain healthy (chronic fatigue, rheumatoid and fibromyalgia) I have a wonderful pharmacist that can compound mine into a gel to rub on my wrist. It is fairly expensive ($60 monthly) but it keeps me healthy. I have had the lap band so I am unable to take a lot of the large vitamins. So, I pay the money every month. …. Because really, it is cheaper than being sick 😉
Ann says
Wow, I never heard of that Tami. Sounds like an interesting, and easy, way to to get your vitamins!
Ann
Tami Lemons says
it works wonders 🙂 If you have insurance, it should be covered. Mine is just out of pocket.. no insurance. But boy, is it a miracle!
donna says
Sorry you feel yucky, Ann. Am also experiencing my first ‘cold’ of this season. Though I will never complain about mostly perfect southern weather, I think the drastic up and down of temps here makes for more sniffles. It’s hard to adjust to a 40 degree spread day by day! And every time it warms up, those sneaky nasty pollens think it’s time to take over the air.
As far as the testosterone-laced complaints of yours??? You must fix that asap…can’t let him have that hanging over your head. My hubby complains and accuses me of being ‘grumpy/bad mood’ when I have cold/allergy issues. It’s not true at all…I just want you to leave me alone 😉
I hope it’s all over for you soon!
Ann says
I agree, Donna. I think when there are drastic temperature swings over a few days everyone gets sick. I hope allergy season isn’t taking its toll on you – Hubby has really had it bad down here the last few weeks.
Ann
Stephanie K. says
So sorry you feel crappy. I must say that this is the first winter that my kids, hubby or I haven’t gotten sick. (Yes, I just knocked on wood!) I had to Google Graves and found it kind of funny that what I have is sort of it’s opposite, Hashimoto’s disease. Hope you feel better soon!
Ann says
My sister has Hashimoto’s, Stephanie. I think I read somewhere a while back (or perhaps one of my docs told me) that WNY has a lot of thyroid diseases. Makes me wonder wth is in Lake Erie!
Ann
Shell says
So sorry you are sick. I use Sambucol for colds and flu. You can take it if you think you might be around germs and then you usually won’t get sick. If you get sick, take it at first sign of symptoms and it will lessen the severity of it. You can buy it at Walgreens, but I usually get it online at Amazon. I like the quick dissolve tablets, but it also comes in chewable ones and a liquid. My adult kids swear by it too and they are all teachers working with germy kids. My oldest daughter gives it to my grandson daily because he is in daycare. It works most of the time, but if he does get a cold, she says it goes away in about 3 days.
Ann says
Thanks Shell!
Ann