I can’t get over this head cold

I’m so ready for this head cold I have to be over!

I don’t think anyone likes having a cold, but I haven’t had one for about fifteen years and I guess the fact that I haven’t had to go through this at least once a year has made it even harder to bear now that I do have a head cold. LOL

I blame my brother! He was here just after Christmas and he was supposed to be over his cold, but it came back just as he arrived and about two weeks after he left to go back home both my husband and I started getting the sniffles.

So I guess I’ve had the sniffles for two weeks, but my cold started to really get bad not this past Monday but the Monday before that. I spent all of last week in misery. My cold was so bad! My nose wouldn’t stop running. I think I used about three boxes of tissues last week – enough to cover all the tile in my kitchen I think! Yeah – gross.

Now this week my symptoms are better than there were last week, but I’ve got a cough and I’m starting to have bad fevers so I’m wondering if my cold is going to turn into bronchitis or pneumonia. God I hope not!

I always get really sick for about a month when I get a cold. Like I said, my husband had the sniffles too and then his cold symptoms got worse for about two days and then he was pretty much over it except for some minor sniffles.

I’ve been taking decongestants and even tried using a nasal spray last week (the nasal spray didn’t help so I’m not using it now). The medicines didn’t help much at all.

How do you handle a cold when you get one? Do you take medications and then feel a lot better after a day or so, or area you like me and stay sick for weeks?