this is what happens when i get a cold:  sore throat.  runny nose.  more and more runny nose.  slight cough.  HORRIBLE COUGH THAT LASTS FOREVER AND THEN TURNS INTO BRONCHITIS, which if left unchecked would also last til the end of time and i’d be drained of all energy in my body.

my sister amy told me about these pills she has taken the last several times she’d started to get a cold.  they are called WELLNESS FORMULA herbal defense complex, made by SOURCE NATURALS, and i bought them at food fantasies; if you don’t live in springfield, i’m sure you could get them at some kind of health food store.

she bought the pills because somebody recommended them years ago, but then she never really took them.  last year when a cold was coming on, she took them…AND HER COLD NEVER GOT BAD.  last year her husband got a horrible cold but amy started taking the wellness formula so she wouldn’t get sick – she started to feel like she was getting a cold, but then it went away.

she said they haven’t worked if she waited til it became a full-blown cold; you have to take them at the outset.

last tuesday afternoon i knew a cold was coming on.  my throat got really sore, and i started to have those pre-cold feelings.  i went to food fantasies and immediately started taking them.  they’re huge horse pills, and they don’t smell good, and you have to take three every three hours.

i took them tuesday night, and on wednesday.  wednesday i felt kind of cold-ish, but there was no runny nose, and my sore throat never got any worse.  no coughing.  i kept taking them on thursday, and ON FRIDAY I WAS COMPLETELY BETTER.

i realize that i’m saying that you should GO OUT AND BUY SOME RIGHT NOW based on just one experience i had, but GO OUT AND BUY SOME RIGHT NOW.

i have avoided the lingering cough-then-bronchitis, i have avoided the endless nose-blowing and feeling crappy.  even though i only avoided it one time, it has saved my sister, who does not lie, multiple times!

kevin refused to take it when he was getting a cold. “they taste terrible,” he protested.  “just hold your breath and take them!” i admonished him.  he refused; he said they would make him throw up.  YOU WON’T THROW UP.

i can’t make him take them, but maybe when they help me keep from getting a cold a few more times, he’ll do it…but i doubt it.  but i can tell you – THEY’RE FANTASTIC.

they make me want to do an infomercial for them, except that i can’t help but do something funny, and that would seem like i’m mocking them BUT I’M NOT.

meanwhile, now that it feels like it’s seven degrees outside, i want to head south.

that is all.

mrs. I HAVE FOUND A CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD hughes.