Headcold hacks.

Sooo I did in fact have a very merry Christmas except that I spent it prone in a recliner moaning because I do not suffer headcolds well. I am going to post a run-down of things that I do that are sometimes effective for colds as penance for being contagious at my loved ones. (In fairness I offered to stay home and the consensus was that people don't get quarantined from Christmas for headcolds. I am not 100% sure that the level of sadness I would have experienced missing Christmas is actually greater than the level of sadness five people are probably going to experience in the next two weeks when they have horrible headcolds :( but in fairness my mother and the two siblings that look like her don't get appreciably sick when they have colds.) I think I already posted this once but I'm revising it, I guess.

( I am not a doctor, just a woman who likes to read studies. )

In general, the key seems to be to find essentially harmless things to do that increase my comfort and give me something to do in between whining and naps. While this is a list of things I personally find helpful, not medical advice, it seems wise to say that if any cold/flu symptoms, including illness-related depression, are carrying on for weeks and weeks it seems wise to see a doctor. I totally dragged on with a cough for two months in high school when I really should have been on antibiotics for a chest infection.