17 November 2006
How to survive a week of 14 hour days when you also then catch a cold…
- Run yourself a lovely hot bath and throw in a something soothing containing lavender. If your bathroom just happens to be the most gorgeous place in your home, so much the better.
- Blow your nose continuously while you wait for the bath to fill.
- Dim the lights, or light candles. Either way, the ambience should be relaxed.
- Carry on blowing your nose.
- Enlist the services of someone fab to make you a hot drink consisting of the juice of half a lemon, a teaspoon of honey, a splash or two of whiskey and boiling water.
- Get into the bath. Just be sure to remove your clothes first.
- Sip your hot toddy while soaking in your hot, lavender-infused bath. Feel instantly comforted.
- Send your someone wonderful to get a small cushion for your head that you forgot to bring into the bathroom with you.
- Keep blowing your nose.
- Knock back a couple of decongestant tablets and a valerian root capsule. Forget that you have to get up at a brutal hour of the morning tomorrow.
- Get out of bath and dry off.
- Blow your nose some more, but notice that the flow seems to be subsiding.
- Go to bed and fall to sleep as soon as your head hits the pillow.
NB. This works best if, unlike me, you avoid writing a blog entry between steps 11 and 13. Perhaps it’s writing the words ‘brutal hour of the morning’ but I seem to have completely disrupted the whole calm, sleepy, unstressed feeling of it all.
Filed under: Fallow — Clare @ 12:10 am
Poor you. I think you need to repeat the process. Take zinc - it’s the only thing that’s actually been proven to reduce the duration of a cold. But your treatment I’m sure will make it more bearable.
Do we get to see any photos of this beautiful new bathroom?
(17.11.06 @ 11:54 am)
Get better soon, I hate having a cold especially if you have things yousimply cannot put off - think of sunny days and birds singing !!
(17.11.06 @ 12:16 pm)
I’ve offered Jooles a chest rub - it would be rude of me not to extend the same offer to my favourite Pumpkin girl
(17.11.06 @ 2:39 pm)
Hmm. Dr Burro. I doubt your technique could match mine. I’ll give it a go later…
(17.11.06 @ 5:49 pm)
Darn! Beaten by a better doctor! Damn you Dr Feelgood - you may have won this treatment, but my stethoscope lives to tempt another day!
(17.11.06 @ 8:19 pm)
I extend my sympathies to you - in fact I empathise. I’m over the worst of it now - back to work! I took vit C with zinc and echinacea tincture (15 drops) every day. Hope you feel better soon. x
(18.11.06 @ 10:39 am)
I have been blog hopping and found you. Hope you feel better soon!
(19.11.06 @ 7:00 pm)
Dear all,
Thanks for the thoughtful comments. My cold is drying out now. I won’t go into details but it does mean that fluids seeping from my nostrils are thicker and gunkier than when I wrote this post. OK, sorry - a few details.
Anyway, your kind words did help me to feel better. Even though it was only a cold and not even a very bad one at that. I was really just making a bit of a fuss and feeling sorry for myself. Thanks for being so nice about it.
Libby - I’m glad your hopping brought you here - welcome to the Soup.
(20.11.06 @ 9:44 pm)
Come back to the Soup! You haven’t written in so long!!
(13.12.06 @ 10:07 am)
Too long!
(13.12.06 @ 4:36 pm)