It may be common but...

I don’t have time for this shit! I have a cold. How can this possibly be?! I had a flu shot so this must be your basic, run of the mill common, annoying-as-hell malady.

The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
~ William Osler

Ways not way – contempt, vitamin C, broth and rest.

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold
~ Kathryn Schulz

I’ve got doubts. I’ve got certainties AND I’ve got the common cold. HAT TRICK! What do I win?

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime – it’s not very scientific, but it helps.
~ Alexander Fleming 

Sadly, my eyeball surgeon told me no adult bevs from now until Wednesday’s surgery. Actually, she said, very specifically, “no wine.” Hmmm.

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick.
~ Muhammad Ali

Dude, I can SO relate but…can ya pass the C and Tylenol, please?

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
~ Ogden Nash

I’m missing the man (of course and always), the kids are up in Hoosick Falls with their Mum but Coco, the cold and me – we're here. Family.

She's watching over me, making sure I rest & DON'T have wine.

Severe isn't a word normally associated with a cold. Severe is for weather or third-degree burns...No one responds 'severe' when someone asks how her cold is.

In fact, nine out of ten Americans respond to 'How's your cold' with 'It sucks.' So there should be an It Sucks cold formula.
~ Celia Rivenbark, Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments 
 
L.M. Montgomery wrote, “a cold in the head in June is an immoral thing…” Is a cold in February somehow ethical or righteous? Here, lemme answer that one for you…NO!

Donna Goddard has written “your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment.”
 
Oh…rilly? This imbecility is said by a person who’s undoubtedly never had so much as a tummy ache let alone a cold, flu or *gasp, horror* Nf2. Ya know, sometimes sick just happens and it ain’t because I felt an unpretty, unlofty, insufficiently Zen emotion either. Dammit.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
~ Sigmund Freud

I may be neurotic, possibly deeply so BUT you can take this illness, this cold. Hell’s bells, I’ll wrap it up in Christmas paper for ya and give it to you with a lovely parting gift of Slane’s best!

I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.
~ Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 
 
Obvs I’ve now attained that high summit – Drama Mamma Peak. Time to go back to bed.