Status Update – Sick Day/Snow Day

I’m armed and fighting this thing!

Yep. Pretty much without fail, every time I hang out with small children these days, I catch something. And right now I have a mild-to-moderate head cold. I blame the bouncy castle playground! And with good cause, because I hear HN is sick too.

So being the nerd I am about things, and considering that I turn to research for comfort, I went online last night to look up the phases of the common cold. Because, of course, I wanted to judge where I was in the process and how much longer I was going to be annoyed by this. I mean, I’ve got stuff to do this weekend that requires me to leave my house and be around people!

So, in case you were wondering, symptoms of the common cold show up 1-3 days after exposure. Check. I started feeling like I had a sore throat Monday afternoon. Then Phase One, which is day 1-2, is the sore throat, fever, sneezing phase. Yep, that sounds about right. By last night, when I was looking all this up, my throat was no longer sore. Phase Two is then from day 3-4, and that, apparently is when you feel the worst. That’s when congestion and coughing kicks in. Hmm. Yes, I appear to be there now. And I hate coughing. But I kind of hate having a sore throat even more, so I don’t know about that “feeling the worst” thing. Fortunately, Phase Three, after day 4, is more or less a tapering off of symptoms until you’re back to normal.

Whew! So from Phase Two, I think I might just lie around today, hopefully getting my chapter for the day written. And helping me in my lying around efforts is the fact that it’s snowing outside! Of course, it was supposed to start snowing a lot sooner than it has, so I don’t think we’re going to get as much as they forecast, but still. Snow is a wonderful excuse.

But check out this screen shot from my phone’s weather app yesterday! Dude, that’s just wrong. Maybe that’s why there are so many germs abounding this winter.