Typical. Got a huge music book for flute and whistle for Christmas and have the Flu. Hubby has been ill as well and he just about functioned enough to cook the Christmas dinner. I managed to eat and then go back to bed. Got up later but trying to play my whistle just aggravates my sore throat and makes me cough. Very frustrating. I just see notes dancing in front of my eyes. 
I’m so sorry…awful to be sick anytime, especially at Christmas. Once my husband gave me 2 lbs of Godivas and I had to wait 2 weeks for a cold to go away before I could taste them.
Try elderberry syrup and echinacea drops.
A hot toddy might be in order.
I am just getting over a bad cold, but I can at least play pipes and cough if the coughing isn’t too fierce.
Get better soon and enjoy whistle/fluting as soon as you can…
Our son woke up this morning with a fever…it just wouldn’t be Christmas without someone being sick! I’d better play now before it spreads through the family.
Feel better soon!
Robin
keep yourself nice and warm selkie, i hope you’ll recover very quickly!!
it’s never too late to celebrate and learn more tunes 
Sore throat dittos to ya. I am at last a basso profundo tho…but don’t feel like singing.
Echinacea works better as a preventative measure, usually does very little once you’re already sick…
Depends. I’ve found it very helpful at the onset of a cold, to stave off further development, but once the cold’s in full bloom it may be of less use.
there’s a good and cheap alternative to a flu shot available and it’s homeopatic: muco coccinum.
1 tablet a week during the whole winter shuold keep the flu away. http://www.bollesclinic.com/Newsletters/feb_spec.html
I have found that the absolute best way to shoo a sore throat away is saline rinces, both for the sinus and gargleing. Add a little salt to water just until you can barely taste it and then gargle. Also a little in the palm and rinsed up through the sinuses will break up the congestion. Don’t ask for visuals.
I have not had a serious sore throat since starting this once I realize one is coming on.
Having a cold/flu can be really miserable, and I hope you are feeling better soon. Until you can play your whistle again, you can take advantage of resting and listen to your favourite CDs. Actually, the best way to learn a new tune is to put it on, and listen to it over and over and over until it is in your head (some CD players can be set to repeat a track.) By the time you are ready to play, the tune will be much easier, and you will feel you have accomplished something with your music, even though you may not have been able to play your whistle!
Get well soon, & best wishes for the holidays.
Yeah, it stinks. I’d had the flu twice in my 43 years. The beginning of the month, I got the mother of all flus and then pneumonia. I’ve been back at the flute for two days, the whistle a few days longer. Lemme tell ya, the first week I was just too weak to care about playing, but it was hell for the next two weeks. Play a few notes, cough my brains out, play a few more, wheez for half an hour. Repeat after a few days with a marginally better result.
I heard a show on the radio while I was sick. It was about how people (in the developed countries) now have almost twice the life expectancy of 100 years ago, and by almost any objective measure a much better quality of life. But they’re no happier (well, there are no objective measures to compare happiness now vs. 1900, but the experts think we’re more miserable). Even though I couldn’t play music, I was very happy – if it’d been 100 years ago, i. e., pre-antibiotics, I most likely would have died with bacterial pneumonia.
Todays got even worse just up for medicine. Unfortunaley being disabled my immune system is always low and every year I get a rotten Chest Infection but usually in Jam or Feb. Keeping fingers crossed that this will clear up and not linger. Jan 31st our newly formed Concert Brass and Woodwind Band is doing an inuguaral concert and if my daughter catches it we are sunk. That’ll be the 2 flutes out and my Ebflat whistle section gone. I can’t find an emoticon for sneezing and spluttering. Think there should be one!
Geez Selkie- Sorry to hear you’re going through that. My wife Cindy just came down with the creeping crud herself a few days ago. She’s about as miserable as you sound. I really hope you get to feeling better soon.
-Paul