Sooner or later I suppose I knew it was going to happen. After all we aren't living in a bubble. Dad has a cold. Stuffy head, cough, lethargic, but no fever kind of cold. We are on day three, as far as I can tell.
A normal person who gets a cold can load up on over the counter cold medicines to get them through the day. Not someone on blood thinners. Not someone who's had a stroke. Look up the warnings on just about every product out there for the common cold and you quickly learn they are all a no no for someone who's had a stroke. Doesn't matter the severity of the stroke, none of them are good to take.
So we are reverting back to the tried and true methods used long before the invention of cold medicines, water, chicken soup and sleep. Dad can take Tylenol and has. We have Vicks vapor rub and a Nettie pot should the cold not get any better in the next day. Wait it out. That's all we can do for now.
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