The Most Epic Cold of My Life

I’m down with the most epic cold of my life.

Why?

First of all I rarely fall sick. Even if I do I get well very fast, unless it’s a cough and they rarely leave me bedridden.

About 3 weeks back my son started coughing. A week later I caught the bug, started with a bit of cough then turned into a cold. Not nasty, just annoying. Think having to remove green goey stuff from your nose constantly.

I went on my life as normal thinking it will last me a couple of days as usual.

Surprise! Surprise!

The day never came. It actually got worse!

On day 7, I started having sinus related pain on the left side of my face - on the teeth, cheek, forehead. The pain was focused on one area if I am lucky, and the on whole left side of my face and head when it’s super bad.

The pain was so intense I cannot decide which was more painful between this and childbirth without epidural.

I decide not to go on medication due to my pregnancy and relied on remedies such as raw honey, apple cider vinegar, netipot, piping hot porridge with lots of ginger and vitamin c.

Delicious porridge prepared by the Mr. He rarely cooks so this is a bonus!

Some doesn’t work while some worked for a while. The pain only hits during the day and I was fine towards the evening. I googled a bit and found out it’s a condition called sinus headache - the symptoms matched exactly!

Day 13 - I went to see a chiropractor specialising in sinus related pain. She told me that the pain was caused by the congestions in my sinus pocket, and most of them were in my cheek area. She performed some movements on my face using her fingers to drain the congestions and also thought me how to do it myself. Oh there were also some misalignment on my neck and she gave both sides a little twist. It does feel a bit better after that. Her advice? A lot of rest and no using the phone when lying down. 😬 I am so guilty of this.

I do feel a little better the next morning, at least I can work a bit and post my introductory post on Steemit. The pain was still there but it was much more bearable.

Today is day 15 of me down with cold. The mucus were considerably reduced and I still get a bit of throbbing pain on my cheek and head. I went out to meet some girlfriends for lunch because it was so hard to arrange for almost 100% turnout and we had planned and postponed this since about half a year ago!

Hopefully the cold will go away by Christmas morning. After this episode, I realised nothing comes above health. When you are down you are so helpless it is hard to think good thoughts!

I do hope no one will have to go through all these pain and I wish everyone will be in the best of health!

On another note, despite being so dehydrated, I think my skin still doesn’t look that bad. And this round I do not get even the slightest peeling on my nose from using so much tissue papers. Talk about the wonders of good skin care. Will share more on that later!

I do not look very sickly, do I?

Happy Winter Solstice if you are celebrating!