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I seem to have caught a cold. I blame coffee. The evidence: Last time I was really sick was when we had the flu (swine) in late June/early July. I gave up coffee at that time. I made it through the rest of July, August, September, and October without having a full-blown cold. (I have had terrible allergies and sinus things going on for months, but nothing contagious.) Lilia has had a couple of sniffly episodes that I would call full-blown colds– in September and October– but I managed to avoid them. She is having another sniffly episode that hasn’t been dragging her down too much (but is causing her to have croupy coughing fits at night). I started drinking coffee two weeks ago, and boom, I am having a sniffly episode too. It isn’t the world’s worst cold, but I’m dragging and feeling a lot of pressure in my head.

Today I am sticking to green tea.