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I've been half-dead and barely getting out of bed for the last week.

I can offer a few tips:

1. Forget facial tissues. Use Scott Original Shop Towels or Huggies Natural Care Baby Wipes to wipe your nose.

2. CPAPs and O2 are wonderful when fighting respiratory illnesses. I love my CPAP and O2 concentrator.

3. Anti-biotic Cream can help those sores you eventually get around your runny nose to heal faster than they form. GV brand from WalMart is good. Get the cream, not the ointment. You want white creamy stuff, not yellow ointment stuff.

4. Avoid spicy foods. Eat bland stuff. Think bananas and water. Maybe corn dogs without mustard. No chips!

5. I hope you have Amoxicillin in your medicine cabinet. Most people who finish a viral respiratory disease lapse into a bacterial infection a few days later. You might feel better for a day then go back downhill as the virus subsides before the bacteria gets going, or you might go from bad to worse if you can not beat the virus before the bacteria get going.

6. Have all your laundry done, all your paperwork done ahead, all your dishes done, etc. It's bad to be sick, but it's worse to be out of clean bedclothes and towels, to have nothing to eat, and to have your kitchen sinks piled high with dirty dishes.

7. Grocery stores now deliver. It may cost $10, but you can get wipes for your nose, cough drops, sick day food, and more delivered the same day in most cases.