I Can Kill You With My Brain

I’ve been hit with a doozy of a cold the last few days.  I’m not sure exactly where it came from, but I’m going to blame my friend Amethyst right now.  She had a cold two weeks ago and while it was mostly clear of her system when I spent the following weekend with her, it is a bit odd that I started feeling the early effects of the cold the next day.  Friends Care!  Friends Share!

The actual head cold was not that bad at all.  It hit on Tuesday and was already making it’s way into my throat and chest on Wednesday.  For me, this usually takes several days.  I had dreams of this illness quickly making it’s way through my body and be back to all systems at 100% by the end of the week.  Wrong!  Persistent cold is persistent and it stuck in my throat giving me one of the worst coughs I’ve had in years.  But the cough didn’t even rear it’s ugly head immediately, but chose to just tease me with the appearance of not being that bad until the weekend.

Friday night the coughs started coming a bit stronger and Saturday night they were really bad.  Sunday night was a repeat of Saturday night, so I upped the strength of my cough medicine for Monday night.  Fail!  Monday night was the worst of the nights, yet.  It’s almost as if the cough took a look at the medicine I sent it and then evolved into a stronger, more evil cough that uses this medicine as fuel for it’s dastardly coughing deeds.

This morning I’m cautiously optimistic.  My coughs, while frequent, are not nearly as strong and deafening as yesterday’s.  As I type that, I had a powerful cough.  I can’t win.  Anyway, I’m sticking to water and hot chocolate today, but more importantly staying away from my beloved green tea.  For whatever reason, that stuff dries out my throat and is exactly the wrong thing that I need to have done to my throat.  I’m also staying away from the vocal tours in both “Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero: World Tour”.  That might be more of a favor to my ears than to my throat.