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Re: Practicing with a cold

Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2018-01-16 07:52

Followup. The variety of cold that's been going around here has been fairly severe and long lasting; mine in fact lasted about 12 days, and it was tedious, mostly due to poor sleep from coughing. I only practiced about the first six days, and then had to miss several consecutive days, which was very annoying because I'd already had to miss a number of days during the holidays to travel and family visits.

Playing did worsen the sore throat and sinus pain. It's hard to make an attribution, because right around then we had several days of sub-zero weather, plus a snow fall that I had to go out and clear, which took a couple hours in zero-degree air with gale-force gusts too often blowing the entire output of my snowblower directly back into my face as crystals of ice. It made my skin scream and my lips curse. The next day, exhausted and drenched after shoveling drifts and raking roofs and sanding walks, I decided to skip practice until I felt better.

I expected other posters to respond that when they catch a cold they often must play or they choose to play regardless. I was brought up to pretty much pursue normal activities through the course of a cold, including work. Bad examples eventually taught me to stay home from work to avoid giving colds to other people, but I'd still do stuff around the house. Now at age 64, maybe things are changing; is there actually a tiny scintilla of truth in that old myth about aging?

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