I am not Well
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
I woke up with a cold last Wednesday and it’s gone downhill from there, tho…I may be seeing an upswing just now. I do, at least, feel no worse than yesterday, and perhaps a little more alert.
I went to work Thursday and one of my darlings (a sweet kid with NO mouth monitor), said I sounded like Rudolph. You know the scene. Where his dad covers up his nose with mud so he’ll fit in? And he sounds like he has a cold? Yah. That was (is) me.
To be honest, I’ve always identified with Rudolph, especially when I was in first grade. Seems I always had a cold that year and I was always sniffling and sneezing and coughing. My nose stayed red and chapped. Yep, me and my man..err reindeer.. Rudolph… we had a a connection.
A brief stock tip for everyone: Puff’s Plus with Lotion’s stock should be headed up…
Even with the soft tissue, I am also going to laud Burt’s Bees products, most specifically the Honey Shea Body Butter. As a diabetic, I’m prone to dry skin and this has been a miracle creme. My hands look and feel younger, my elbows are no longer doppelgangers for cheese graters and my feet are doing better too. The stuff smells like honey. Yummy.
The two products that have saved my nose are Res-Q Ointment which has a slight menthol scent, good for the stuffed noses. The other one is Burt’s Bees Beeswax Lip Balm. The combination of the two has turned a chapped, sore nose and chapped lips back into…well…normal skin. Next place I’m going to try the Res-Q is around my eyes. They’ve been watering so much and I’ve been wiping them often enough that the skin around my eyes is red and puffy and sore too.
I like this stuff enough that I bought some for my mom for Christmas. I hope she liked it.
No work for me again today. I don’t like losing the money, but I want to get better sooner, not later. Besides, I’m probably contagious… (ain’t I a charmer today). Y’all stay well.
