I want to have a cold tonight
And if you think I’m mad,
I have a real good reason…
The alternative’s too bad.
*
My head is really aching
And my eyes are awful sore,
The box of tissue’s empty
And I haven’t any more.
*
I’ve taken antihistamines
Because I thought I should
But even double dosage
Hasn’t done a lot of good.
*
I’ve checked the first aid cupboard
And there’s nothing useful in it.
I’m feeling pretty miserable
And sneezing every minute.
*
My nose is sore and tickling
It drives me up the wall…
So why would anybody
Want to have a cold at all?
*
I’ve just moved to a rural place
Surrounded all in green
With fields and grass and wildflowers
As pretty as I’ve seen.
*
And, as my nose is just as damp
As that of a retriever…
If I don’t have a proper cold…
It has to be hayfever.
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
I like your poem, but am sorry that you have the hay fever!
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I really am hoping it is a cold 🙂
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I feel your pain Sue!!!
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It had better just be a cold 🙂
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I know mine isn’t … dosed up to the hilt! Tablets. Nasal sprays. Eyedropper.
The lot! And still getting itchy eyes!!!
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I’ve never had hayfever and always lived around pollen. Now is not the time for it to start.
I do hope you feel better soon, Ritu. Thst sounds really miserable. x
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I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you Sue!
I’ve lived with it since I was 15…
Some years it’s fine, some I want to die!!!!!
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I’m too old now to be tempting fate by wishing my life away 😉
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Never too old Sue! You’re an ageless Sprite, anyway!
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Well that made me smile 😀
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😄 my job is done!!! 😊😊😊
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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Oh NO! A virus it could be a virus… gret poem though😇
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It had better be a virus… 😉
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Oh Sue, I hope you’re not permanently going to suffer.
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So do I. I hope its a cold.
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A thin layer of vaseline just inside your nostrils will catch the pollen before it reaches your sensitive hairs in the nose particularly before you go outside…. if you have some chamomile tea then drink three cups a day with a teaspoon of honey – local honey will desensitise you to the local pollens. Also drink hot lemon with honey as the lemon will give you a Vitamin C boost. An onion a day with every meal and garlic too if you can take it as it too helps with hayfever. If it is a cold all of the above will ease the symptoms.But the vaseline does work well. xx
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I shall follow your advice, Sally. Funnily enough, after decades of not even being able to stomach the smell of honey, I have been craving the stuff lately. I do think the body usually knows what we need if we listen. xx
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Oh and change you pillowcase every day as your hair collects pollen and you then rub your face in it all night! xx
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I tend to wash my hair every night so it has time to dry without the dryer. xxx
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Hope you feel better soon!
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Thanks, Merril!
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Great poem, and I totally get it. ☺
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Oh dear, I hope that doesn’t mean you suffer too…
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Every year. From about age 7. Hay Fever…ragweed season from the dog days of summer (mid August) until the first frost. Oddly enough, I never get a cold. ever. So….I’ll take it. ☺
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I think I’d rather have the occasional cold 🙂
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I hope you do have a cold because allergies are forever! I have friends who never had allergies (like hay fever) and have developed them after fifty years old. I am hoping you will be over this soon and not a reoccurring event. 😦 hugs, Robin
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So do I, Robin. At my age I would not be happy to get a new allergy…
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Oh no. The price of bucolic beauty, Sue. You will adjust. Drink lots of local honey in your tea.
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Now there’s a good idea, Diana. Local honey… must locate a beekeeper…
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I hope it’s a cold. I’ve never had hay fever but this summer for the first time ever I’ve been constantly blowing my nose and someone said it might be hay fever. Apparently it can develop even if you;ve never had it before. I’m not as bad as you and other than the irritation of having to blow my nose many times a day I’ve not had any other symptoms. Maybe the pollen count has been unusually high this year?
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I’ve never had it either, Mary, and don’t intend to start now, whatever my nose and eyes may think. It really would be unfortunate with all the fields… If the rapeseed was in flower, I could understand it.
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Poor thing! About the cold/hayvfever (hopeful cold), but congrats on the move. 🙂 Wonderful and funny poem!!
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Thanks, Melissa. Not quite as rural as your place, but I’m gradually moving in that direction. 🙂
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If you never had hay-fever before you moved, I hate to say it, but, there may be something pollinating near your new place that you haven’t come across before. I usually have to have a steroid/cortisone shot whenever I go over to England! Good luck and great poem!
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I moved less than a mile from my old place and practically live outdoors, so I would not be pleased to suddenly develop allergies…not now.
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We live in an oak woods with three dogs. Antihistimines are us.
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I take the things every day anyway for the ‘itchies’ that started with the stress of Nick’s attack and never left. Hayfever I do not have. Or I’d better not… never have before!
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Great little ditty, Sue. Sorry your allergies are making you miserable!
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I don’t have hayfever. I’ve never had hayfever. I refuse o have hayfever 😉
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It’s funny, allergies. I am now allergic to things I was never allergic to and I’m no longer allergic to things I once was allergic to. I don’t get it. My grandmother ate strawberries all her life. At eighty-five years old, she suddenly became very allergic to them. I think our body chemistry changes over time.
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It does, and allergies are aquired. I used to have a fabulous collection of earrings… then became allergic to most metals except gold and silver. Which doesn’t sound much until you consider bras, fasteners and medical use.
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Lots of advise in comments below Sue😄 Lovely lament, hope you get better soon
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Thanks, Susan. It would be a pain to start with hayfever, now I am surrounded by open fields…
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I’ve tried everything here, and none of it works. So now anybody coming from the States gets a simple plea from me: Allegra D!!!!!
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Ah, I had one of its ingredients, fenofexadine, once… very effective.
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The NHS will prescribe that one (with lots of dire warnings and suggestions that perhaps you’d really rather try drug X. Well, I did try drug X (plus drugs Y and Z as well) and then I went back to asking for fenofexadine and sudafed. I got only the fenofexadine and more dire warnings. Seriously, make friends with Americans who are willing to travel with AllegraD.
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I’ll consider that if this is not just a cold.
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my hay fever developed late in life – but I’ll never retreat from the countryside
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No, I wouldn’t want to either, Paul.
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I can sympathise, Sue. It has recently been suggested that at the ripe old age of 72, I have developed hayfever. You couldn’t make it up, could you?
Hopefully, you haven’t…
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I hope I haven’t too… and I’m sorry that you have!
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Oh No! I feel for you Sue. My daughter gets hayfever and it seems pretty miserable 😦
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It is a cold… or else 😉
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Cold it is! Forget the Piriton, get in the Night Nurse! 🙂
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I’d settle for a decent night, just at present. But Nick is sniffing, so I might be in luck 🙂
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Poor old Nick too! 🙂
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Indeed 🙂
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Thanks Steve 🙂 x
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Very clever poem Sue. Sorry to hear about your ‘erm, hayfever. 🙂
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I’m hopeful that it is a cold as Nick also appears to be suffering and he lives in the town 🙂
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I hope so. But given you’re in a new environment with new plants and animals, it’s suspicious. 🙂
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I’m still only five minutes from where I was… the same village. But now I have cows 🙂
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Lol, not mad cows I hope, lol. 🙂
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No… very laid back 🙂
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Blergh!!! I hate hay fever. I feel like I want to rip my face off and wring it out. I hope whatever it is passes really quickly.
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Seems to be, for the time being at least, so I’m hoping it was a cold.
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Ouch! I was lucky when I got attacked by allergies in Ireland, Zyrtec actually helped. Made me a bit drowsy, but nothing that some guinness couldn’t fix. 🙂 Hope things have settled down a bit!
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I’m hopeful it was just a cold as Nick had the same thing and lives five miles away… but I see him every day, so we generally catch the same viruses. 🙂
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