Day 42 of 365 - Tis the Season for Giving, Including Colds

Alas, I have succumbed to a cold already, so early in the season too!  With all my health and wellness focus in recent years, I don't get them very often.  However, despite my efforts to support my immune system with good diet and supplements, a hacking cough appeared after a couple of days of a scratchy throat.  Boo!

Who knows where I picked it up?  When I have been out shopping and so on I've already heard lots of people coughing.  I'm going to assume that my much less than desirable sleep pattern in the past couple weeks is a factor in my vulnerability.  And now, I will get even less due to waking up coughing.  Ah, the joy of a cold virus!  Not!

When this kind of thing happens to me now, I JUST STAY HOME until the worst is over.  I am grateful that this is a viable option for me at this stage of my life.  Provided that my husband remains okay, he can do shopping and errands for us.

I do not make a good patient.  I wish, like some of my friends, that when I feel unwell I could just go to bed and sleep much of my day away as I heal.  My constitution is not like that, unfortunately.  I've never been a person who really enjoyed staying in bed beyond night time sleeping.

Instead, I will drink mug after mug of hot tea laced with oil of oregano, take more vitamin C throughout the day, chew on my honey fermented cloves of garlic and happily receive healing distance Reiki from friends who have offered to send it to me.

I'll take these days as a gift of time to putter around home, getting little organizing chores that get put off completed.  Probably my indoor Christmas decorating will get a good start too. Some online Christmas shopping might happen as well.  And, I have books from the library to be read.  Oh, and yes, these blog posts to write!  Maybe I'll get some done ahead of time.

So, it's not all gloomy, except for when I feel like I'm dragging around a sack of rocks, figuratively of course, or coughing uncontrollably.  It's only day one of this cough, so I'm feeling ambitious now.  It's probably not a good idea to make my to do list too long.

My mind has not crashed from this yet.  That will come later in the day, which is why I'm getting this post done now.

If anyone wants to send healing energy or say a prayer for fast clearing of this virus, it is much appreciated.






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  1. jodyNovember 15, 2018 at 7:06 PM

    bummer...stay warm and cozy in the house Joan......sending you some A&R.

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