I've got a cold and I'm not happy

 For a good part of my life getting a cold meant starting with sniffles and a red, raw nose in autumn and it coming and going till the daffodils started to bloom.  I remember dragging my self to work and about three in the afternoon popping pills and wishing I could hibernate till spring.  But those days are gone.  Would you believe it was a trip to the dentist that lightened my life.  I had had to have a scan and it showed there was something wrong with my sinuses.  Fast forward and I am in hospital getting over an op to clear out what had been causing all my problems for years.  Not painful but very unpleasant.  I had something like a small nappy tied under my nose to catch the residue of the op.  Not too bad while in the ward but a bit embarrassing on the two buses I had to catch to get home.  Anyway I can now breath through my nose now and while I still don't like colds it means they only last for a week or so then go away.  It just goes to show there are answers to life's problems its just that we don't always know where to look for them.