I tried to stare down my cold today…no advil, no antihistamine, no nuthin’. My appetite returned, but my nose ran with a vengeance. I worked for a few hours, came home, felt terrible, and put together pot sticker soup. Then I made a chocolate cake to curb my dessert craving. I pieced together fabric for a Christmas gift and hunched over the sewing machine until my back went stiff. I read, I watched TV, I sucked it up. I have to go to rehearsal now; I don’t know how I’m going to put on shoes, get into my car, and head out into the rain…somehow I have to do it. There’s no other way: I just took advil, cold, and sinus.