Last Thursday I came down with the flu. I was at school early in the morning and ended up going home at around 11:30 because I could tell that I was getting sick and fast. I then laid in bed for 5 hours without moving. It was one of those flu's that combine extreme coldness plus extreme aches and pains. Sounds pretty terrible?
Well I kept on telling myself........at least I don't have a cold!!
I despise colds. I would rather have the average flu, compared to the average cold. For the following reasons...
1) It's not the sneezing and runny nose which gets me...its when the nostrils are plugged up which makes it difficult to breath. It's very frustrating that you can constantly blow out of the plugged nostril and it doesn't seem to make any difference.
2) The piles of Kleenex laying around on the table, in the trashcan or on the floor. Isn't that disgusting?
Normally when you have the flu...everything is flushed down the toilet
3) False Hope. Several times throughout the grueling process when you sneeze, you will feel one of the best feelings God has given us...two open nostrils!! But then that hope will be CRUSHED when the opposite nostril closes up.
The flu never gives false hope. You know that you will be miserable for a day or 3...and you know exactly when you are getting better.
4) Length of Time. My general cold lasts more than a week. Give me a freakin break.
I'd rather feel five times more miserable for 2 days with the flu, than have my nostrils plugged for up to a week and a half.
5) The Flu is like a competitive organized basketball game, fast, hard, and then its over; the Cold is like a competitive organized baseball game, slow lazy and annoying
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At first I disagreed, but you make some good arguments. I was sick all of last week, with a cold. Weird.
ReplyDeleteI still have a little bit of a runny nose. Want to know how I fixed it? $67 at Wal-mart! I bought a humidfier, nasal spray, nyquil, dayquil, tylenol SEVERE cold, 2 bottles of OJ, a bottle of V8, a bag of oranges, 2 boxes of tissues, vicks, and eyedroppers (I researched at home remedies and irrigated my nasal passage ways w/ a salt water mixture..sounds gross but it worked).
TMI? ha ha oh well
I will venture out to say that I would rather have the cold for three weeks or the flu for one week than H1N1. I had it in October and it as the worst. I literally thought I was going to die, I have never in my life felt worse.
hope you are feeling better!
Ha...if the cold was a foreign country...it sounds like you called in the entire US military
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