Head Cold

[flwyd]

I think the worst thing about having a head cold all week isn't the sinus pressure on my skull, or the way the tip of my nose now feels like sandpaper. It's having spent a whole week breathing through my mouth.

I'm now on the "feeling better, will be ejecting mucus for another month or two" stage. The home test says I don't have covid or influenza. But this is the second time in four months that I've been absolutely hammered by this nastiness. Did the common cold get stronger, or did I just get weaker?

Comments

[threemeninaboat]

COVID made people weaker.

[squirrelitude]

My family had the flu for the first time in years a couple months ago. Home test kit was negative for the two of us we tried it on -- only the hospital's test showed a positive (when one of us had particularly nasty symptoms). Apparently the home kits for flu are just not very sensitive, something like 75%.