How to get over a cold

What do you do if you wake up one morning with the world’s scratchiest throat, phlegm issues and generally feeling spaced out?

1. So long as your not suffering bodily aches (which I’m led to believe are the precursor to a flu), drag yourself to the gym for a light cardio workout or out for a walk to get yourself moving and get some endorphins flowing through your system.

2. Take a hot shower to freshen up and relax those muscles, then set about making yourself a vitamin-rich lunch.

3. Go to a beauty parlour/day spa with a mate and get some treatments to get some pampering and make you relax. A facial or a pedicure is a good choice, waxing not so much.

Vee relaxing on the balcony after our pedicure at the day spa

4. Go have a delicious meal for dinner, something flavourful and filling, such as a paella claypot, at a trusted restaurant

This is the paella claypot at Coco Lounge - saffron rice with black mussels, tiger prawns, chorizo and chicken in a home made napoli and white wine sauce. Great with a little fresh lemon juice squeezed over the top!

And what not to do when in the stranglehold of a cold? Go to a night screening of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan screening which will end up making you laugh so hard that you rub your throat raw and are completely unable to talk the next day, as well as being tired from not getting a good long sleep due to the dry-throat coughing that kept you up all night.

I’m almost all better now, just a little residual scratchiness in the throat. The good thing that has come out of all this is that I’ve found it almost impossible to smoke thanks to the throat pain, and I’ve had about 4 cigarettes in total over the past 4 days. I’m still craving the physical process but not the tobacco so much, so maybe this is my chance to quit?

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