So I normally go for a bike ride on a Saturday morning with 1 or 2 friends but this Saturday just gone I woke up feeling unusually tired so I opted out of the ride 
. As the day progressed I felt worse developing a stuffy headache and sinus pain so on Sunday I decided I'd take a covid test.... Negative..... Later in the evening I was feeling really rough, so I decided to take another covid test.... (Hate those things....make me gag every time) again negative. And then it happened, the nose dribbles began, I'm not talking blowing my nose, it's that annoying type where for no reason as you are making a drink or texting ya friend your left nostril decides it's the Niagara falls and you race to find the nearest tissue before it's too late. By the end of Sunday evening I thought oh my goodness it's 'man flu' I've got 'man flu'. So went to bed after having some ginger and lemon tea with honey.
Monday morning came, I got up let the dog out for her morning.... Errr.... Y'know... Made myself a cuppa and continued to feel rough. My Mrs got some chicken soup from the local shops, I had that, and rested on the sofa most of the day watching different mind numbing videos on YouTube etc, by 5pm I was feeling much better the headache had lifted the sinus pain retreated. But still the nose dribbles....
I realized that it had been around 18 months since my last cold and started to ponder on the reason behind this.
Naturally I came to the conclusion that for the majority of 18 months we have been locked up in our own homes and practically been bathing in Alcohol hand wash and wearing masks. But recently I noted that a lot of people have not been doing so, for obvious reasons of course. But I thought how my body must have enjoyed not fighting colds for all that time and when a tiny cold virus came along it knocked me for six.
Why am I telling you all this? I don't have a clue, maybe it's the painkillers for the headache or maybe it's a deep down feeling the need to share with others who understand the woes of Man Flu.
. As the day progressed I felt worse developing a stuffy headache and sinus pain so on Sunday I decided I'd take a covid test.... Negative..... Later in the evening I was feeling really rough, so I decided to take another covid test.... (Hate those things....make me gag every time) again negative. And then it happened, the nose dribbles began, I'm not talking blowing my nose, it's that annoying type where for no reason as you are making a drink or texting ya friend your left nostril decides it's the Niagara falls and you race to find the nearest tissue before it's too late. By the end of Sunday evening I thought oh my goodness it's 'man flu' I've got 'man flu'. So went to bed after having some ginger and lemon tea with honey.Monday morning came, I got up let the dog out for her morning.... Errr.... Y'know... Made myself a cuppa and continued to feel rough. My Mrs got some chicken soup from the local shops, I had that, and rested on the sofa most of the day watching different mind numbing videos on YouTube etc, by 5pm I was feeling much better the headache had lifted the sinus pain retreated. But still the nose dribbles....
I realized that it had been around 18 months since my last cold and started to ponder on the reason behind this.
Naturally I came to the conclusion that for the majority of 18 months we have been locked up in our own homes and practically been bathing in Alcohol hand wash and wearing masks. But recently I noted that a lot of people have not been doing so, for obvious reasons of course. But I thought how my body must have enjoyed not fighting colds for all that time and when a tiny cold virus came along it knocked me for six.
Why am I telling you all this? I don't have a clue, maybe it's the painkillers for the headache or maybe it's a deep down feeling the need to share with others who understand the woes of Man Flu.
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