(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Saturday Top Comments: Having a Cold [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-07 Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition, please send it either to topcomments at gmail or to the Top Comments group mailbox by 9:30pm Eastern. Please please please include a few words about why you sent it in as well as your user name (even if you think we know it already :-)), so we can credit you with the find! I hate colds. This one started as a tingle up in my sinuses, coupled with a little bit of a phlegm-y cough. When I feel the cold coming, I have one standard remedy—I start mainlining Robitussin. So I started taking my doses and then something happened that has never happened before. I started experiencing some…gastric distress. Now I know correlation isn’t causation, but I remembered reading that gastric distress was a symptom of the Rona. So today I tested. Negative, but I forgot to spin the swab in the reagent. So I had some gubmint tests from when they were first available. Hoping that they weren’t expired, I took another. Also negative. And then I remembered that I’ve been having a VERY high fiber diet this week. Now, the fiber in my normal diet is pretty low. Think a box of pasta worth of fiber per week. Maybe like 20g tops? But I made a lentil soup for this week’s meals. I went from 20g per week to 12-15g per day. OK. And with this upcoming week’s meal prep, I should be back to normal in the gastro-intestinal department. In the meantime, I’ll continue pounding the Tussin and hopefully everything breaks tonight so I can be in top form for rehearsal tomorrow afternoon. The only problem with my course of treatment is that I’m kind of floaty and need to do my meal prep for the week. It’s not a hard thing to cook, but it’s the motivation. So as my night goes on, on to Tops! TOP COMMENTS Brillig's ObDisclaimer: The decision to publish each nomination lies with the evening's Diarist and/or Comment Formatter. My evenings at the helm, I try reeeeallllyy hard to publish everything without regard to content. I really do, even when I disagree personally with any given nomination. "TopCommentness" lies in the eyes of the nominator and of you, the reader - I leave the decision to you. I do not publish self-nominations (ie your own comments) and if I ruled the world, we'd all build community, supporting and uplifting instead of tearing our fellow Kossacks down. Please remember that comment inclusion in Top Comments does not constitute support or endorsement by diarist, formatter, Top Comments writers or DailyKos. Questions, complaints or comments? Contact brillig. As of this writing, there are no submissions for tonight. TOP MOJO Top Mojo for today, October 7, first comments and tip jars excluded. Thank you mik for the mojo magic! For those of you interested in How Top Mojo Works, please see his diary on FAQing Top Mojo. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/7/2197980/-Saturday-Top-Comments-Having-a-Cold?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/