A cold's impact on my life

I thought my days of going without a shower for a few days was over when both of my children were in elementary school.

I was wrong.

Recently, I rediscovered this feeling when my two sons and I got terrible colds.

For my youngest son, John, it didn’t start as a cold, but something else. He had a fever, was tired, extremely needy, dizzy and weak. The poor thing. It makes me sad when he is like that. Almost every hour for two days, I changed his ice pack for his head upon request and catered to his every need. This meant both of us sleeping on the couches in the living room. He took one and...