Be happy if you woke up today and your throat didn’t hurt.

Your nose isn't runny, but can you breathe easily through both nostrils?

Me eating something spicy: "I'll fucking do it again!"

Every night before I go to bed I do a mental health exercise where I list 3 things I was thankful for that day. It's a habit that is supposed to make you appreciate the good things and help get past the bad.

On unremarkable or bad days the list is that I wasn't in constant/chronic pain, that I got to eat and drink all that I needed, and that the day is over and I'm in bed and statistically very safe. It may not seem like much on bad days, but if you've ever been missing one or more of those 3 things then you know it's a HUGE set of problems to appreciate not having.

Ever since covid I get the influenza and covid vaccinations every season.

Totally unrelated I'm sure, but ever since I've been doing that (and washing my hands first thing when coming home) I haven't been sick at all. No runny or clogged nose, no coughing or itching throat. No fevers, no throwing up, just pure, healthy bliss.

Get vaccinated people.

This is a PSA Announcement:

An orgasm instantly clears out the sinuses. Due to lack of studies doctors don't fully know why this happens.

I guess the joke is on me, I've had a sinus infection or something for like a month so my nose is always either running, or clogged. Sometimes both at the same time!

The feeling when you physically notice your cold improving, you can breathe through both nostrils, and you don’t feel fatigued and sore anymore is an amazing feeling.

I'm gonna be sad now, thanks.

I wish I could use both hands, remember faces, and walk without a cane.

Of course, there is always someone who says they wish they could have both hands, be able to remember anything, and walk at all.

And there are people who have no limb who wish they could have one, and would long for any mobility at all.

I’m grateful for what I got, but in a true human sense, I want more.

...that's my secret....

Not being invaded by Angles nor Saxons

Also I don't have sand in my eyes atm. I love it when there's no sand in my eyes.

My chronic rhinitis and I will just stay over here…

This is why masks.

😭 I woke up sick today.

I think about this every time I start to get sick.

Everytime I get sick I think about this. “I am going to appreciate my life so much more when I’m not sick.” I appreciate not being sick for about five minutes before it just goes back to being whatever.

Headaches too. Every time I get a bad headache I honestly forget what it feels like to not have one.

Idk, given a common cold is caused by viruses, simply limiting the exposure to them generally helps not having a runny nose. Soo, why not be pissed off that you have to be around humans instead

Yes it is, I fucking hate autumn and winter.

I woke up hungover, happy birthday dad.

Also:

A bite on the inside of your cheek

Canker sore on your tongue

Broken baby toe

Broken off splinter in your finger

Sunburn

I'm just now getting over a cold that gave me the worst laryngitis of my life. It felt like I got punched in the throat some days. So I'm super grateful today to have most of my voice back. Swelling and inflammation is reduced. Even my cough which I thought would become bronchitis is fading. So grateful to be feeling well again after a week of this.

Have bad allergies, those days are not often. Also sucks because people always think I am sick but thankfully a dumb immune system is not contagious.

Let's wait for some smug Australians to show up

I've lived in a couple of cities in Europe and I can tell you my nose was runny and my throat a bit rough far more often in a poluted place like London (UK) than it is in the small city I live in now in Portugal or the places I lived in when in The Netherlands.

(In fact moving to a small city in Portugal from London hugelly improved of my health when it comes to that kind of thing)

I suspect that the tendency to catch colds and suffer from alergies is often coupled with all the Sulfur Oxide gases around in cities with lots of car polution, since those turn into various sulfur oxiacids when those gases mix with water in the nose and airways.

All i hear now is my nose whistle

As someone who gets a runny nose every time I eat..

Dang

joint and muscle pain is just as evil in the early hours of a day before the drugs can be thrown at them

we don't think about the things that are going fine, only current problems. the marketing/advertising industry exploits this human tendency to the utmost, not only for your actual current problems, but problems (actual or not) you didn't even know you had until they told you that you need to buy their solution for it

I have this thought often when I'm sick. How often I take for granted the healthy body. And then when in healthy I treat this thing like a dirty lawn ornament.

What a stupid fucking post. I'm grateful every day I don't have a runny nose or sore throat as I know how completely miserable I am when I do have either of those.