I turned over, facing away from him and tried to plan my schedule according to the beginning and ending of the impending cold. Well, it's been four more days at this writing, so maybe it won't materialize for him or for me. The point is, we are so out of control with these things. One sneeze in the face and you've shot a week of your life.
Young families seem to have one member of the family coughing most of the autumn, winter and spring.
When our own kids were small they too had colds and ear infections and the like, but somehow it didn't seem as frequent. Some say daycare, where the little darlings not only cough and sneeze in each other's faces but where they play with the same toys, kiss the same dollies and eat snacks from the same bowl, is the culprit. Supposedly, young parents can comfort themselves with the idea that they build up an immunity, get all of the childhood diseases taken care of early on and come out ahead of the game. As we get older, however, we work very hard to avoid getting colds, because they do seem to be harder on adults than children. I guess the old new machine, old machine theory might apply here.