For our flower shop family, catching a post-holiday bug is just as much a part of tradition as the Thanksgiving turkey. We spend the weeks leading up to each major holiday on overdrive, working double-time to get everything done for work and family, and by the time it’s over we crash. Like, hard.
I usually catch something of the 24-hour variety and I’m back in fighting shape before the leftovers are gone. But this year, between working unexpectedly long shifts and a hot-to-cold weather change, I picked up a nasty head cold that’s been plaguing me since Saturday. What started as an itchy throat morphed into a sinus-swelling, eye-watering, throat-scathing mess — literally overnight. And not even a sexy cold voice to show for it!
Yesterday I stopped at the drugstore on the way to work, and about half a dozen of us sickies were gathered together in the cold and flu aisle, commiserating over the Mucinex and DayQuil and twenty kinds of cough drops. Raise your hand if you’re not infected with some kind of germy funk right now…
I’m washing my hands like the cast of The OCD Project, drinking my weight in orange juice, popping Halls Defense and Luden throat drops like candy, and considering buying stock in Kleenex; all while whining and pouting like a four year old because I’m the worst sick person ever. {Sorry, honey. You’re a saint.} Welcoming any and all home remedy suggestions before I drive my sweet husband straight over the edge with my schnoz-blowing ridiculousness.
Well, it’s day four; and besides looking like a red-nosed, mouth-breathing extra from The Walking Dead, I’m [forcibly] optimistic that this thing has almost run its course. In the meantime, I could really use a YouTube beauty guru makeup lesson on how to look less zombified this cold and flu season.
What do you think?