Dear Readers

You have indeed been preying on my mind.
Butch came home from the pool hall a week from last Tuesday and said, " I hate to tell you this but I have a cold." He knew this news would not make me happy. I told him he needed to neti. He would not. Insisting it does not do any good. He was wrong then and he is still wrong. Combine a cold with allergies and it takes having a cold to a whole other level. So Butch suffered mightily for a few days...I would say 5 or 6 days. On Sunday, we took him to what I thought was a 24-hour clinic but was indeed an ER. Won't make that mistake again. After the clinic/ER debacle, we hit upon the fact that he was taking an allergy pill but not the Allegra-D he should have been taking so we stopped at Walgreens and got him on track with that and his condition has improved but not 100% yet. So then the next Tuesday rolls around and I notice the ugly symptoms of a cold. I neti right away and start the Zicam and I keep it up. Here we are at Friday and I too am not yet at 100% but I can tell I am on the way to recovered good health or as good as it can get. So what does this all mean? I have not felt well enough to do much of anything the past two days including a blog entry is what it means but now I will try catching up.
And my advice if you know you are coming down with a cold is at the very first inkling or tiny tickle in the throat use a neti pot and Zicam. A 3 day cold is much easier to bear than a 7 day cold.