These days a cough is as dramatic as the onset of a zombie apocalypse, so imagine my nervousness a week ago when I woke with a cough and streaming nose. I took a test and it wasn’t Covid19, it was something worse – Man ‘Flu.
Man and medication
Man ‘Flu
Thursday came as Thursdays do,
rude awakening with a cough,
surely not bloody Covid too,
getting old is bad enough.
Take a test the government orders,
Lateral Flow or PCR type,
tickling the nose and tonsil borders,
with a well extended cotton bud wipe.
Negative! So what is wrong,
not the dreaded uncumpumpas,
my Dad’s descriptive sickness song,
when afflicted with unknown health impasse.
The days crawl by without progress,
symptoms continue to annoy,
there’s only one possible intrusiveness,
a proper male oriented killjoy.
Ladies be thankful for your gender,
periods and childbirth nothing to rue,
in comparison to the subtle male offender,
the grave affliction that is man ‘flu’.
©David L Atkinson November 2021
God Bless
Thoughts of D L Atkinson 