A week of life being shut down because your body is too weak to deal with a tiny germ.
Winter is coming. And no, that’s not me quoting a line from Game of Thrones. Winter is the harbinger of disease, and with its coming arrives the inevitable winter colds, flus and other nasties that invade human hosts to make them sick and miserable for days and sometimes weeks on end. Where I live, winter comes a little quicker than in some other areas of the states, and now that the weather is changing, a cold has seized hold of me.