Can the common cold affect your ability to think clearly?

You are not imagining this. Get some chicken soup and some rest. If your head is really clogged get a nettie pot. It may help clear things up. Get well soon!

I think yes. In fact, I’m suffering through a nasty cold right now and can barely think or type straight. Probably as much a consequence of the immune system being activated to fight the infection as the fact that you just don’t sleep well at night with a cold.

I always feel like a zombie except for the fondness for human brain when I have a cold, whether or not I’m taking medication for it

All your energy is going to fight off the cold virus. In addition, your symptoms are distracting you and making it hard to concentrate. Quite frankly, instead of teaching class you should be home in bed resting. Your body will thank you and so will your students, both for your return to coherency and for your thoughtfulness in not exposing them to the virus.

Have you taken your temperature?

Mmmmmmaaaaaaayyyyybbbeeeee a lil bit.

Judi: That chicken soup works. Good idear.

There must be a fluther bug going around. Max and I are sick right now too. Feel better!

Achoooooo !

I have a cold too I had 102 and 101.5 fever since Sunday night.

Absolutely agree with Darwin here. My brain on a cold is usually either packed in cotton, drowned like a cookie in a fish tank, or saturated with Elmer’s Glue. I was there just a week ago. It is comforting to know that this is subnormal and that I’m not really like that all the time.

Yeah. I wish I could stay at home and rest every time I had a cold. My department isn’t very cool about that, though. I always have a handful of students who are sick, anyway. We all just pass around various illnesses. Grrrreat.