Hak, hak, koff, koff....

Debilitate is a ten dollar word that translates into getting one’s butt kicked…

So, the cold, sneezy, runny nose part ain’t exactly fun but it’s the omnipresent coughing, the dry hacking, the light-headedness that ensues from attempting to expel all the air that occurs with the damn coughing, that is the true definition of debilitate…

The good news is…I don’t have pneumonia…pneumonia c’n be treated with antibiotics ’n suchlike but I don’t have it….I got a virus…my doctor very professionally informed me that I have “some kind of virus.”  

And antibiotics don’t work on viruses…they just have to run their course…so I came home with another bottle of codeine cough syrup ’n instructions not to take with alcohol…

In the olden days, I believe doctors use’ta prescribe brandy ’n whiskey….ah well, times change….when I wuz a boy, even tho’ most people knew that cigarettes were called ‘cancer sticks’ for a reason, advertisers insisted that smoking wuz good for you…I recall oldtimers blowing tobacco smoke into children’s lungs in the belief that it wus helpful…now the anti-tobacco people scream if they spot someone smoking on the street where they live ’n the ‘do-gooders’ want to raise taxes on cigarettes by another two or three dollars a pack….I suspect if you’re a shrewd enough biznessperson, that’ud look like an opportunity to go into the bootleg cigarette trade…

I saw a US Senator arguing with a pundit about the need to double the tax on a gallon of gas…the Senator wuz wearing a bicycle lapel pin ’n I’d say it’s even money than someone in his family has a vested interest in the bicycle business….they say Americans don’t really trust their fellow man all that much these days I say that you c’n almost always trust a politician to not only serve his or her self first but to take more’n his share if he thinks he c’n get away with it….’course, maybe I got a different definition of trust going on here…..

Anyway, according to the information that I got from my doctor this morning, the virus that is causing all my discomfort is just about run its course ’n I maybe got another week of the cough to deal with….that ain’t so bad, I guess…it’s cold outside ’n I c’n prob’ly force m’self to snuggle up ’n wait it out….Time flies whether you have fun or not….good tidings to all….