The Common Cold by Ogden Nash
Go hang yourself, you old M.D.!
You shall not sneer at me.
Pick up your hat and stethoscope,
Go wash your mouth with laundry soap!
I contemplate a joy exquisite
In never paying you for your visit.
I did not call you to be told
My malady is a common cold.
~*~
By pounding brow and swollen lip;
By fever's hot and scaly grip;
By those two red redundant eyes
That weep like woeful April skies;
By racking snuffle, snort, and sniff;
By handkerchief after handkerchief;
This cold you wave away as naught
Is the damnedest cold man ever caught!
~*~
Give ear, you scientific fossil!
Here is the genuine Cold Colossal;
The Cold of which researchers dream,
The Perfect Cold, the Cold Supreme.
This honored system humbly holds
The Super-Cold to end all colds.
The Cold Crusading to end democracy,
The Führer of the Streptococcracy.
~*~
Bacilli swim within my portals
As such were ne’er conceived by mortals,
But bred by scientists, wise and hoary,
In some Olympian laboratory.
Bacteria as large as mice
With feet of fire and heads of ice
Who never interrupt for slumber
Their stomping elephantine rumba!
~*~
A common cold, forsooth, gadzooks!
Then Venus showed promise of good looks,
Don Juan was a budding gallant,
And Shakespeare’s plays show signs of talent.
The Arctic weather is rather coolish,
And your diagnosis is fairly foolish.
Oh, what derision history holds
For the man who belittled the Cold of Colds!
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Is the common cold the best virus?
There is no vaccine against them due to the virus not harming us.We go places and do stuff while we have caught it, effectively spreading it everywhere.It doesn't kill it's host.
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Jeez I hate being sick. Normally my kid gets whatever crud is going around and then I get it 2.4 days later but not this time! Oh no, this time I got sick first which is almost worse because I have to coddle her through the early stuff even when I feel awful. My husband (her dad) helps but she always wants me when she's ill.
Also, relatedly, I always thought it was fucking magic when my mom would touch my forehead and just announce "you have a fever". Like what mystical mom shit is that! And now I have that mystical mom shit myself!
(it's because your kid is on you all the time so you are intimately familiar with their little body. If their temp is up, breathing is funny, etc, you just instinctively can feel it. It's pretty incredible)
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Smorgasbord Health Column – Winterise your Body – Nothing more common than a cold…by Sally Cronin
Smorgasbord Health Column – Winterise your Body – Nothing more common than a cold…by Sally Cronin
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May 01, 2022 - Slept a Lot, Painted a Little, Getting Better! #AgingGracefully
A sleepy multi-nap afternoon, one 15 minute exercise early, and a touch of painting was my day, lol!
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