Down with a Cold
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
I'm sure I've mentioned this before but just because I feel sick and whiny: when I was kid and had a cold, my mother handed me a couple of extra handkerchiefs and sent me to school. Aside from the annoyance of a constantly runny nose, I felt fine.
Old age changes that – at least for me. Although years can go by between colds, during the past decade or so, when I do get one it feels like a flu – achy, tired and just plain miserable.
I'm too fuzzy-brained to think so today's post a place holder - something to link to today's Elder Story. Now I'm going to crawl back into bed and feel sorry for myself.
At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Vicki E. Jones: I'm Going to Let My Hair Go Gray
Poor thing. Feel better soon.
Posted by: notdotdot | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 06:01 AM
Hope you feel better soon, Ronni.
Posted by: kenju | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 06:44 AM
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww.....and I hope you have some chicken soup in your cupboard too.
Posted by: Mage Bailey | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 06:51 AM
So sorry you are not feeling well. I had the flu for a couple weeks and then I pinched a nerve in my back and am now recovering from that. I am sending you hugs and smiles.
Posted by: TechnoBabe | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 06:51 AM
Hope you feel better soon but baby this cold-- you being old or not old. A lot of people have gotten this one and they ended up with pneumonia, in the hospital, or took forever to get over as it came back about the time they thought they were over it, and that's not just old folk.
Posted by: Rain | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 07:25 AM
Colds are no fun! Cuddle up with Ollie, take it easy, and don't feel pushed to work on TGB.
Posted by: SuzyR | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 07:46 AM
Put Ollie to work as a furry hot water bottle for you...and hope you feel better soon.
Posted by: Possumlady | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 07:50 AM
Take care of yourself! If this is the cold so many have had, you are going to need to sleep. So do.
Posted by: janinsanfran | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 07:53 AM
Bummer! You needs lots of Vit C & chicken soup. Feel better soon. Dee
Posted by: Dee | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 07:58 AM
If I were nearby, I would be over with a care package -- and thoughtfully just leave it it on your doorstep -- you don't need or want company!!!
Get well!!!!!!
Posted by: Kay Dennison | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 08:20 AM
We know just how you feel, Ronni.
Good you went back to your nice warm bed.
We'll be here when you feel better...
Posted by: Nancy | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 08:23 AM
I am so sorry that you are sick.
One disappointing thing about growing old is that it takes longer to heal and illnesses that we could just shake off are pure misery now. It goes with the territory, I guess.
Stay curled up in bed and drink lots of liquids. Sleep, blessed sleep, is the best medicine.
Posted by: Darlene | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 08:37 AM
Yes, once we used to consider colds a minor nuisance. Not any more. I'm sorry you've got one and I hope that you've got nearby whatever works best for you. Take good care of yourself, please. We'll miss you but we only want you back when you're well.
Posted by: laura | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 08:59 AM
I recently had the same problem -- see sightingsat60.blogspot.com/2011/02/does-anything-cure-cold.html
But I still don't get: Whatever happened to Coricidin?
Posted by: Sightings | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 12:48 PM
For a week now I've been trying to figure out if I have a cold or an allergy
The pollen court today in Florida is medium-high. Maybe what I have is a cold and an allergy!
Checked the pollen count in Portland, Oregon - pollen count today is medium-high.
Maybe you have an allergy?
Whatever, feel better soon.
Posted by: millie garfield | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 01:19 PM
Keep some Zinc lozenges handy.
Check out a Healthfood store
[once you get better ]and you will be better armed for the next viral attack.
Take care.
Posted by: Uma | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 02:58 PM
I was in a sociology class yesterday with college kids and a few token seniors who had been invited in to give the kids a touchstone. The teacher was trying to dispel stereotypes of seniors. One was "old people are always ill and cranky." I couldn't help speaking up and saying, oh, no, a lot of us are quite healthy. But indeed we are quick to get cranky when we feel bad and we blame a lot of things on actually minor aches of the "I'm a bit slow today, my knees are stiff," and "I didn't type that because my arthritis makes typing irritating." These are true statements but they're often employed really to excuse ourselves for short comings. This translates to the younger people as "old and cranky" ... and self-pitying and irritating.
Posted by: June Calender | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 03:57 PM
Be well Ronni, whatever is going around has been nasty.
Posted by: Celia | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 05:21 PM
Stay safe warm tucked in and hydrated and I hope you have the energy for a good book to take your mind off the miseries.
Nothing sets me back like a bad cold, it just permeates the whole body and outlook.
XO
WWW
Posted by: wisewebwoman | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 07:19 PM
Cold miseries definitely call for going back to bed. Hope you feel better soon.
Posted by: Linda Skupien | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 07:42 PM
So, so true about having a cold as a kid and now, at 66 I too, whine and am miserable and need to be taken care of even if I am asleep :D. Feel better soon.
Posted by: Paula Devi | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 08:09 PM
I detest colds! I hadn't had one in ages (10-12 years) but last year I caught a nasty one. It took two weeks to get over it completely--the cough lingered on--although I had only a couple of days of feeling really crummy. So, take care and don't rush it--we'll all be here.
Feel better soon.
Posted by: Elizabeth Rogers | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 09:52 PM
Sorry you are not feeling well. Thanks for posting anyway. And you have a perfect right to be cranky, too. So there.
Posted by: Hattie | Thursday, 24 March 2011 at 01:16 AM
Stay warm and dry; drink plenty of fluids, juices; take an aspirin; get lots of rest; eat chicken soup and pop a few zinc lozenges might be what the Dr. would say, or not. So you're cranky -- who is there to offend when you live alone?
Surely Ollie will be sympathetic.
Posted by: joared | Thursday, 24 March 2011 at 02:45 AM
Oh, Ronni, I do hope you get better soon! Take dear care.
Lia
Posted by: lilalia | Thursday, 24 March 2011 at 03:14 AM
I just struggled through a cold too. UGH! No fun! I gargled with warm salt water with Grapefruit Extract Concentrate, & did nasal irrigation also with GEC. That stuff sure does work to get colds & other grungy stuff cleared up!
Posted by: Kate | Thursday, 24 March 2011 at 04:18 PM