I came down with the lurgy… three weeks ago today in fact. It’s just about cleared up now.
Started out as a head cold, by the end of the week it quite literally put me on my back – from Thursday night to Sunday night I was sleeping like 12-14 hours a night.
But the defining feature of this one was – I’m sorry if anyone’s eating at the moment – the snot. I’ve never known a cold like it. Not the usual drippy runny nose but really thick stuff the colour of an 80s hatchback, and gallons of it. I was waking up in the morning and my throat was so clogged it was triggering my gag reflex and making me throw up (lots of mucus, mostly). At one point I went deaf in one ear. I lost count exactly but I think I went through ten boxes of tissues, I had a bin like a teenage boy’s bedroom. If it hadn’t started easing off when it did I was going to ask on here whether it sounded like a cold or a sinus infection.
Get well soon.