Snot & Phlegm
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Given that you spend so much of your time jetting off to Africa on business and (presumably?) shaking hands with lots of customers, you are doing well to have gone 18 months without a bug - I have had 3 this year, costing me over 2 months off my bike!
Globalti
Legendary Member
Good point but I'm hardly doing any Africa trips nowadays and in any case flus and colds are much less prevalent. You're far more likely to get a tummy bug from food that's been kept warm for too long on hotel buffets or salads or inadequately cooked meat so I always carry a powerful antibiotic that our travel doctor gives us.
The last time I caught a cold was in South Africa when I had a meeting at Woolworths in Cape Town. Sitting opposite a very rude and obese woman when she suddenly looked up from checking social media on her phone and let go two explosive sneezes, spraying me full in my face. I held my breath but sure enough the next day the sore throat started.
The last time I caught a cold was in South Africa when I had a meeting at Woolworths in Cape Town. Sitting opposite a very rude and obese woman when she suddenly looked up from checking social media on her phone and let go two explosive sneezes, spraying me full in my face. I held my breath but sure enough the next day the sore throat started.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Ugh! 
12boy
Guru
- Location
- Casper WY USA
When I get a cold I go to bed and sleep. I've long believed that I get sick when I need to, meaning I am stressed and tired to the point my body says....knock it off...I will put you down for a while and then you will have to slow down. I also have a childish faith that riding my bike when it's cold prevents colds as this makes my nose run like a faucet and cleans out the sinus. As I got older the frequency of colds diminished so I can't remember the last one. Of course, that could be dementia.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Coughing up green stuff and snotty. Blurgh.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
think i caught this from work mates tbh , 3 others been off with it over the last week , i am now at the cough lumps and sniffle phase so getting better
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
It might be a bit premature to smile about your imminent recovery...think i caught this from work mates tbh , 3 others been off with it over the last week , i am now at the cough lumps and sniffle phase so getting better
I have had 3 colds this year and each time took 2+ weeks to recover after that phase. I know 3 or 4 other people who have had the same experience. There must be a particularly nasty strain of cold virus doing the rounds this year!
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
It might be a bit premature to smile about your imminent recovery...
I have had 3 colds this year and each time took 2+ weeks to recover after that phase. I know 3 or 4 other people who have had the same experience. There must be a particularly nasty strain of cold virus doing the rounds this year!
We've had loads of folk off sick, doesn't help that we are mixing with thousands of snotty students !
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
been off the bike over a week now , had to have last friday off as i had the full on shivers, cough, sniffles and apparantly my eyes started to close up .It might be a bit premature to smile about your imminent recovery...
I have had 3 colds this year and each time took 2+ weeks to recover after that phase. I know 3 or 4 other people who have had the same experience. There must be a particularly nasty strain of cold virus doing the rounds this year!
Still coughing and sniffly and im thinking may as well leave the cycling this week and get really better rather than prolonging it and bee unwell over x mas
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Bad luck!
Best to take it easy for a while - I rushed back onto the bike after the first cold of the year and did a 100 mile ride which resulted in me getting ill again.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
well today im will be doing turbo session later as mrs ck working so i cant get out and tbh its the 1st time in a week and a half i have felt capable .
