I have managed to catch a cold

I certainly wasn't chasing it. [insert expletive here]

It's not really my daughter's fault. She did warn me she was sick before she came home yesterday. I thought diligent handwashing and not doing anything silly like hugging her or sitting next to her would be sufficient to keep me at my usual level of disability.

Wrong.

Of course, that would have worked if I had a functional immune system. You know one that actually fought off small exposures to infectious agents instead of targeting my joints and internal organs.

I shall now drag my disease-ridden carcass to bed.