I can't believe I'm still ill with this cold / influenza bug, or whatever it is. Lucky for work I'm now on holiday as I wouldn't have been making very good attandance.
Up to now I've had everything but the sore throat. I've had aches, shivers, coughs, catarrh, sinusitis but up to now, no sore throat, though I did spend a couple of days with comedy voices.

Well that changed last night. Last night the back of my throat became tight, as if I was fighting an allergy and tender to the point that the mere action of inhaling was causing me to cough. How ironically cruel is that?
For two hours I tried hopelessly to sleep, but the minute I started to drift off, I began my coughing fit. Nothing helped, I had Strepsils and Veno's, but nothing was making any difference.

Finally, I managed it, but awoke again in the early hours coughing for England.
I went downstairs and put the kettle on and reached for the only constant I had - a packet of Lemsip. (I've never been that convinced about Lemsip before, after all, it's just honey, lemon and paracetamol isn't it?). I thought "what the hell?" it seemed to stop me coughing before, maybe it was a fluke, but at that point I had nothing to lose. I sat in my dressing down, on the sofa with a couple of over-sized fluffy pillows and drank. Remarkably, it soothed my throat to the point that my natural relflex to cough had been suppressed and I slept again. When I eventually woke up this afternoon, (I know, shameful!) my throat wasn't as tight either.

I'll be making sure my cabinet is never out of Lemsip again! It's helped with everything that's been thrown at me so far!