#self-obs

Anyway, after foolishly thinking on Monday that I'd be fine in the morning and wouldn't need any more tissues, I woke up on Tuesday morning with no tissues and immediately sneezed messily 5 times in a row.

Turns out that I'd seriously misjudged this cold as "not that bad, won't last long" just because I didn't really feel ill (no headache, have had plenty of energy the whole time, temperature definitely normal--very unlike the last time I was ill which was unfun and for me very unsexy though I'm sure whumpy from an outside perspective)--I mean, in some ways it's not that bad, but it's lasted just as long as any other cold and is also quite possibly the sneeziest cold I've ever had.

Since it was raining very heavily on Tuesday morning, and I was working from home and not on camera, I spent the morning at home sneezing messily and blowing my nose into the shirt I'd worn the day before since I didn't have tissues. Wish I'd taken photos as it ended up very snotty. Finally went out to buy some around midday...going outside meant my nose started streaming and I've never been more desperate for a tissue, as soon as I'd paid for them I was tearing the pack open to blow my nose and completely soaked through several tissues within a few minutes.

For the rest of that afternoon my nose was burning, I felt like I needed to sneeze constantly...frustratingly I only actually sneezed...well, still quite a lot, I think, but only about half as much as it felt I needed to. Very sniffly though, used up a pack of tissues over the course of the afternoon.

Wednesday was less intense, still sniffly with the occasional sneeze, needing to blow my nose from time to time but not that much...and then for most of today, I was just very mildly congested, only needed to blow my nose 4 or 5 times (no longer going through tissues at the rate I was, either, one pack lasted me through Wednesday and most of today).