Status Update

I am in the grip of a terrible disease. Ok, it's only a cold but it's been brutal. I felt so awful yesterday, I couldn't even read. I played games on my computer. I couldn't even think of a "status update" for my Facebook account. My throat was clogged with the thick mucus draining from my head. It hurt to cough, and cough I did; horrible, wracking, phlegm-filled croupish coughing, so intense it made me dizzy and incontinent. It's been building in intensity and increasing it's discomfort for over a week. This morning I woke with a sinus headache, if you've ever had one you know what I mean. It's pressure filled pain. You want to shove your fist up your nose and pull out the problem, not unlike cleaning out the inside of a jack-o-lantern, and then you'd need to go in through your mouth with a grapefruit spoon and scrape out your Eustachian tubes to alleviate the ringing and itching in your ears. I'd like to throw-up, to get rid of the garbage that ran down to my throat and was swallowed overnight. There is no relief for the discomfort. Day time cold medicine is only marginally effective. Actually, all it does is dry out your membranes, and add "burning rawness" to the list of indignities. I'm not sure Ibuprofen knows what to do, where to run. I can't taste, swallowing is out of the question, my eyes itch, my nose is an oozing abrasion, and my attitude needs a major adjustment. I know this is unpleasant, but you need to know.

I'm not sure why.