Sometime between last Friday and last week, a virus stole into our office and felled our staff. After I went into the office on Black Friday, it took 72 hours for the sniffling and dripping to start, followed immediately by the scratchy throat and general cold symptoms that bring linebackers to their knees.
Amazing how such a simple thing can be such a pain.
Some folks in the office have bronchitis, while others claim the flu. Whatever it is, it has managed to bring activity to a halt and make the folks at Puffs(R) and Kleenex(R) very happy.
Going to the cold aisle for relief doesn’t help anymore. The good stuff (the non pseudo- cold remedy) is hidden behind the counter at the pharmacy while the condoms are on display in aisle 3 along with the other “family planning” items. Does everybody else feel strange going to the pharmacist to ask for Sudafed (R)?
The cough medicines are hard to decipher. There’s one for dry cough, one for wet cough, one for phlegm, one for wet cough with phlegm, one lasts for 12 hours, one lasts for eight hours and helps you sleep. They all have distinctive flavors, too. Ever try cherry and honey lemon cough syrup in the same day? If you run out of one, and the drug store only has the other, is mixing and matching flavors okay (especially if you can’t taste either one of them anyway)?
I wonder why nobody has come up with a nose blowing band. I recently saw an article about a group that literally makes musical instruments out of vegetables. Listening to people toot their noses across the musical scale, there should be a use for that somewhere. Maybe I can look it up on YouTube. . . .nope, not there yet.
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