Cold sufferings

Here we go
Starts as a tickle
Then a scratch
That no swallowing or water
Will make go away
So out comes the home remedy
hot cider vinager or salt water
But by morning that hasn't worked
It is now a prickly sharp ring of fire
So now I can't swallow without wincing
painkillers don't work fast enough
Hot Lemonade works
Until the painkiller kick in
While I am trying not to swallow
A little drip starts in my nose
little sniffles
One nostril gets stuffed
Then the other
Then both
I hate not being able to breath through my nose
So snuff the decongestants
Swallow
Through the ring of prickly fire
Antihistamines
Hoping to head off my head becoming a cement bowling ball
Wrong
Come morning two
I can't lift my head off the pillow
I don't know how ordinary people do it
Function with a cold
Go to work, drive, wash the dishes
Sure they take the same drugs I do
But they seem to be able to think and hold intellegent conversations
Pppllleeeaaasssse
I can barely get out of bed
to pee, if I must
to feed the cat, can't let her starve
But then it is back to bed
To find the inside of my eyelids
And hope the pressure will go away
Another day can pass
Before finally
The fog begins to lift
The sinus pressure drops
Post nasal drip begins
Snuffling it back
Then coughing it up
That rasp in the back of the throat
That I can hear and then can't get to sleep
So up I get to take the cough medicine
Then to stare at my ceiling
To then drift off
Finally getting a decent nights sleep
And maybe I will go to work tomorrow
If I can not be a space cadet