O, virus. You thought you could bring me down, didn’t you? You thought you could ruin me. You spent weeks ruining everyone around me before you got to me.
Well, virus, you had your work cut out with me! As soon as I felt a little tickle and a cough, I ate so many throat sweets, I forgot how to even spell sore throat.
On the advice of work colleagues, I got some echinacea tablets and took three a day to subdue you.
When the blocked nose arrived, I swore off dairy and took decongestant tablets and just about kept it under control. One morning I awoke totally unable to breathe through my nose but that was the only time you managed to interrupt my sleep.
I remembered people saying “feed a cold” and ate incessantly, from morning until evening.
Who knows if any of the old wives’ tales were true but I put my faith in them anyway. With a little help from some Beechams medicine and a bottle of cough syrup, I got through the worst of it without ever properly ‘having a cold.’
I transported all my medicine around with me constantly and whenever you appeared, in even the mildest form, I kappowed you with vitamins, I thwacked you with lemon and ginger tea, I karate chopped you with Strepsils throat sweets. The fight was on. And I was winning.
And now, virus, little sad virus, it is you who is regretting our meeting. You should never have arrived here. You should never have taken me on. For, instead of ravaging me, keeping me awake at night and making things unbearable before moving on to your next victim, I have stopped you in your tracks and struck you down.
Virus, your reign of terror stops here! I am equipped with echinacea and you shall not take me!
lazylauramaisey 
Posted by kindredspirit23 on November 27, 2012 at 22:12
Way to fight!!!
Posted by lazylauramaisey on November 28, 2012 at 09:55
Yeh but I think it saw me writing the blog and yesterday wasn’t my best. Today, though, I am back on top!
Posted by kindredspirit23 on November 28, 2012 at 14:13
Good for you!
Posted by standrewslynx on December 3, 2012 at 11:16
My miracle cold-cure is lemon juice and honey tea. Maybe it does help my immune system get back on its feet…but it also tastes amazing and just makes me feel better. I’m in the middle of a lemon & honey tea battle right now, hopefully will shake the cold off by tomorrow…
Posted by lazylauramaisey on December 4, 2012 at 21:11
How did your honey and lemon battle go? It’s definitely on its way out for me. I’m just having lots of herbal tea and honey and lemon, after reading your recommendation. It worked very well! Thanks.
Posted by Alex Jones on January 11, 2013 at 19:59
That is exactly what I do, if I sense infection I go to war.
Posted by lazylauramaisey on January 16, 2013 at 15:16
I got a bit sniffly over Christmas and in all the fun, I forgot to go to war and I had that sniffle for ages afterward!