#freshcold

Wondering if you’ve ever gone to bed around midnight - feeling just fine. Throat was fine, Nose was clear, no sign of a cough or even a headache.

Then around 3:30 - you find yourself waking up with a completely stuffed nose. You try to inhale and clear it the usual ways… Roll over on your side and fall back asleep only to wake up with a big sneeze about 30 minutes later.

I haul myself out of bed, shivering a little bit… Head hurting, and going to the bathroom to get a tissue. Allergies from the week before had me blowing through what I had next to my bed.

While in the bathroom, the first blow is notably viscous - you think “ where did that come from?” I dropped the tissue into the garbage and immediately sneezed and sneezed and sneezed… Reaching back in - now groggy with a little bit of a headache… I empty my nose into another tissue and another tissue and another…

My God… I’m coming down with a head cold.

Where did that come from?

I go back to bed… And my nose completely closes for business. I wake myself up, snoring about an hour later and having forgotten to bring tissues and not up to walking back to the bathroom… I blow hard into the T-shirt that I laid at the side of my bed… back just 4 hours earlier when I was allegedly healthy. I’m now socking in a sudden-onset cold. Again another blow filled with snot.

My head is hurting, my nose is completely plugged and I’m preparing for a busy workday loaded with a fresh new cold.

That was yesterday morning… Needless to say I am now loaded with a lovely winter cold in the nose that hit me from nowhere.

Can anyone tell me the story of a similar situation or are you like most people… Your cold’s emerge slowly with clear signs?

It’s 9 AM at work… The person you love from afar, comes in dressed with a warm sweater looking slightly less put together than usual. You ask how they’re doing and the response: “ I think I’m catching a cold.”

It’s now 5 PM you hear a thick snotty sneeze in the other room- and that same person walks by your desk with a huge red nose, a deep sniffle and a deeply nasal voice…”scratch that…I DOE I’ve caught a code!”

“I think I’m coming down with a head cold “

My Kingdom for a Tissue

Such a bad nose day. I’ve been sneezing non-stop, my nose a leaky, runny mess, and I’ve been reduced to blowing into an old t-shirt. Whether it’s allergies or a cold creeping in, something’s got my nose a goin!

I went to see an empty apartment—dust everywhere—and of course, my nose went into overdrive. I sneezed ten times in a row, walking around with that pre-sneeze tickle of doom. At one point, I literally had to pinch my nose closed, feeling the imminent eruption of a snot volcano.

And then it happened: “Ehhhhh-ehhhh-hapummmpphhh!”—right into my hand. Disaster. No tissue, no napkin, no hanky—just me, my sniffles, and a gooey mess of viscosity. I dashed to the bathroom. Empty. No toilet paper. Ehhhhh… ehhhhhh…another one - a big sneeze under construction.

I stood there, finger under my nose like a human dam, trying to hold back the tide. “A doze id deed in deed…” I muttered, barely coherent.

Then—salvation. I opened a closet and voilà! A stack of soft, glorious tissues, waiting like a gift from the nasal gods. I blew and blew and blew, even sneezed into a third tissue just in case. My poor, stuffed nose finally cleared, open for business once again.