02-23-2026 — Sniffle-a-lot-too-much

Howdy all. Yesterday, either the weather caught up to me, or the fact that the electrician was sniffling and sneezing his entire time here on Thursday, was not just experiencing “allergies”. I was sneezing and had a runny nose all day. And overnight, that turned into a very nasty clogged and sore throat. I am still sniffling, with the occasional painful cough.

And, of course, I have zero non-expired cold/flu/allergy OTC medicines in this house anywhere. About 2020-2021, I ordered a bottle of Night-Quill and a couple Day-quill from Amazon. They shipped a case of 12 bottles of the night version for the price of a bottle. I tossed about half the bottles and put 3 upstairs and 3 downstairs. Well, they all expired in 2023. And so did the allergy tablets, I had purchased. I guess this is the first big cold/flu/Covid 19 for me since. I placed an overnight order to Amazon for replacements, and of course, they did not get here today. Figures. Maybe tomorrow.

What I do have are good testers for Flu/Covid, and I used them just to confirm it isn’t the worst case for this obese, ancient dude with bad lungs and heart.

No T line — just the control on this one.

And no Flu A or Flu B or Covid on this one either.

Temperature did get to 99 at one point today, but was mostly right where it belongs.

And while the heart rate is a tad elevated from looking for this meter, the Blood Oxygen level is decent at 97%.

Now if I could just keep the air passages clear, and not tickle the back of the throat, I’d recover from what appears to be the common cold.

I’ll be headed to bed super early again tonight to get as much rest as possible.

Sniffling, sneezing and coughing, is not the way to Enjoy Life