Whiny whingy duck here - feel free to skip.
This cold started over a week ago (average length of a cold 5 days ... yeah right) with a sore throat that rapidly turned into early stages of tonsilitis feelings - you know that really spikey throat you get in the run up. Managed to head that off at the pass by lots of ginger, honey & lemon tea and gargling with anti-bacterial mouthwash (not both at the same time).
Then I've had a week of the snots (you know the type, where you can't sleep without three layers of pillows keeping you vertical all night so you don't drown in your own slime) while also dealing with a toddler with rampant snots of his own.
Now the last 24hrs it's gone to my sinuses and I'm in agony. (Ducks must have big sinuses - they're all beak, aren't they?!) I've done the head over steaming bowl of water/olbas oil. I've taken the decongestion tablets... WHY is there no difference?!
I feel as ill today as I did 7 days ago - don't you normally feel rough the first couple of days of cold and then have just niggly aftermath stuff afterwards? AND to add insult to injury I can't taste a bloody thing, so I can't even eat loads of chocolate to cheer myself up.
And I've still got the hacking cough/asthma aggravation stage to look forward to ...
Sorry, I know people have more serious stuff in "Heatlh" but I just wanted to wallow in my misery for a bit and have people cheer me up. (Did you buy any spare fairy cakes, LTH? looks hopeful)