I have a nasty head cold on top of my hay fever, and haven’t breathed in three days . . . Can’t stay home from work, “not sick enough” (and we’re all passing the cold around in the spirit of comradeship, anyway) . . . Have to sleep sitting up, and wake up every 15 minutes coughing and sneezing . . . My poor beezer hurts from so much nose-blowing . . . Gotta get to the doctor and get some Judy Garland-strength cough medicine. “Lydia Pinkham’s Little Opium Drops,” or something . . .
Anyone else suffering from colds, hay fever? You know, that “not sick enough to be really sick, but sick enough to be really annoyed about it?”
Allergy season is in full force for me right now (ragweed, pollen, etc.) Don’t have a cold so I’m lucky there, but I can have violent sneeze attacks without warning. They get so bad I have to pull over if I’m driving as my eyes tend to swell up to where I can barely see. I usually try to run into a store or something just so I can change the air I’m breathing. I’ve been hiding out and sleeping in my basement for nearly a month as the air doesn’t seem so “polluted” down here. I suggest getting schnockered on lots of NyQuil. It should take the edge off and help you get some sleep. I have to rotate my pharmaceuticals every week or so because my body seems to build up a tolerance to them. First Sudafed, then Allerest, then Dimetapp, and on and on. 12-hour Afrin nasal spray is my friend.
Yeah, I am living on alternating sudafed and aspirin, and Tylenol for Colds. Can’t take any cough medicine with alcohol, I’m allergic to hooch—so I gotta see if my doctor will prescribe something that’s 90% codeine (which I am not allergic to, thank goodness). Off to have another cup of nice hot tea . . .
P.S. Here’s a tip for your allergy-plagued peepers: dampen some cotton balls, put them in the freezer for a minute or two, then put 'em over your eyes and lay down.
I don’t have allergies, but I do have a half a cold (the office cootie is making the rounds). It’s much weaker than anyone else has it, but I’ve got the sneezin’ thang goin’ on. Jeez…I wonder if my pharmacist has any of those opium drops. I’ll bet that pillow just calls your name.
Mmmm . . . Thanks, Honey, the Chunky Monkey alone will make me feel better!
Yes, indeedy, I can’t wait for this workday to end so’s I can crawl to the train, then crawl to the other train, then crawl home—by which time my stockings will pretty much have had it, with all that crawling . . .
Allergic to alcohol! God’s Trousers, woman! The horror, the horror.
Well since you can’t have a huge Hot Toddy with half a bottle of Jack Daniels Sour Mash, I’d check to see if Robotussin DM has any alcohol. Always works wonders for me. (Actually, the Robo or the Hot Toddy, in your case go with the Robo.)
Get better soon!
As another alergy sufferer this week, I appreciate the suggestions. The one thing is I’m having trouble lying down with the cotton balls over my eyes in the freezer.