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15 November 2012

You know it's going to be a bad cold when... [contribute your horror stories of the sick inside]

post by: Ardiril at: 18:36 | 14 comments

Cheezits taste like old fish gone bad.

posted by Ardiril 15 November | 18:37

you think you're just fine because you took lots of cold medicine and everything is GRAAAAANNNNDDDD

but other people look at you with concern and ask if perhaps you should be home in bed.

posted by sio42 15 November | 20:03

Everything aches. Even your eyebrows.

posted by ninazer0 15 November | 20:05

I wake up coughing.

posted by The Whelk 15 November | 20:30

You hear crackling sounds when you breathe.

posted by brujita 15 November | 21:10

I have coughing fits that are so prolonged and vigorous that I begin to puke.

posted by MonkeyButter 15 November | 22:03

You have a dream that your insides are liquifying; you wake up to your insides liquifying.

posted by koucha 15 November | 23:44

You cry because the dirt in this new city is all wrong because it's all black and dirty.

posted by geek anachronism 16 November | 04:35

You're proud of yourself for walking all the way across the room without getting tired.

posted by Melismata 16 November | 12:27

Seconding coughing so hard you puke, also coughing so hard you inhale a whole bunch of air and then puke.

posted by The Whelk 16 November | 13:01

you're so sick that curling competition is all you can mentally handle and furthermore you cannot summon the strength to reach the remote to turn it off when the inevitable hockey intervenes. also your hair hurts.

the cough till you puke... whooping cough is apparently A Thing again these days (thanks anti-vaxxers) and so mr lfr and I are facing the prospect of getting boosters before we go to LA for Chanukah with his grandparents because there's an outbreak there or so I've heard.

posted by lonefrontranger 16 November | 13:26

It's only day one and you've already used two jumbo boxes of tissues up.

posted by Splunge 16 November | 14:55

You can't hear or taste anything. (I've had everything above, too. I usually just ask to be put out of my misery, but no one listens to me.)

posted by deborah 16 November | 17:11

When your body cleanses itself from both ends....at the same time.

posted by redvixen 16 November | 21:21

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