The common cold, if left untreated, lasts about two weeks. If treated with medication and rest, it lasts about fourteen days.
Illness Quotes
The surly bird gets the germ.
Fire, the sea, and woman; these are three ills.
There is, let us confess it (and illness is the great confessional), a childish outspokenness in illness; things are said, truths blurted out, which the cautious respectability of health conceals. About sympathy for example – we can do without it. That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings […]
Every invalid is a prisoner.
God and the doctor, We both adore In time of trouble, Not before. Illness cured, Reverses righted, God is forgotten, The doctor slighted.
I enjoy convalescence. It’s the part that makes the illness worthwhile.
I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, because I’m not myself, you see.
Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to us.
Don’t deny the diagnosis; try to defy the verdict.