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Well, it happened. Thank you VERY MUCH RAYMOND HERB. I have your cold. One would think, in light of all I have endured, that a bad cold would be just one more blip on the radar. Hardly make a ripple. Except somehow I thought I was immune. When my hubby began hacking, coughing and complaining of chills, I was smug. This is what happened when you don’t take care of yourself, I chastised him. “If you had been better with your hygiene you would have not caught a cold.” I smugly said, cold-free. We participated in a 100 mile bike ride at the peak of his cold and when he complained of feeling fatigued I screeched at him, shrew-like, “TAKE A GEL!” I did not understand. Until I woke with a pain in my head. And a stabbing throb in my throat. And realized…yes, yes, I am human too. THE RAT BASTARD GAVE ME HIS COLD! I tried to jolly myself around the inevitable truth by first saying that my symptoms were because of allergies. Spring, you know. But soon it became apparent that the symptoms I was experiencing were exactly the same as those that had previously plagued my hubby and I was victim to the dreaded common cold….. human. Ahhh, God does have a sense of timing. When I am thinking of warmer temperatures and rides on the bike, He reminds me that my body is but a temporary shell…and as fragile and as fleeting as the spring itself. I of all people should realize this truth. When my precious son left the earth at the age of 16 I once and for all knew that our human bodies are fleeting and temporary. And yet…. My throat hurts. My head throbs. I am sick. I am human. This is humility itself….remembering that each healthy day is a gift and every sick day is a test. I fear I do not fare well on the test. “My head hurts!” I whined this morning. To his credit, my hubby did not screech at me to “take a gel”. Instead, he rubbed my back and made me coffee. I never said I was the good one in our relationship. He said, “Oh, my poor girl, what can I do to help you?” Where when he first complained of cold symptoms I narrowed my brows and asked, “Did you take a Claritin?” It’s not easy for me… being sick. All day today I drank water and sat around. Not my two favorite activities, but apparently, two things I need to do in order to get well. A lesson well learned….. Thank you VERY MUCH RAYMOND HERB.
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