The cold I had 2 weeks back (or nearly) was an absolute swine of a thing to shift - two days of sweating buckets, more phlegm expunged than a body should be able to hold, a throat like barbed wire and really bad conjunctivitis in both eyes. With the pallid look from the cold and the red eyes I looked like an albino Satan. The Hermes lass was visibly shaken when I answered the door and took a step back, she may have crossed herself too, I couldn’t see that well for the gunk in my eyes.
My wife took it on as I started to recover and along with some of the above symptoms has now had a bout of pneumonia and is presently abed with pleurisy. This is some seriously crappy cold. Get the damn jab if you can.