Drink alot, that is always a good way to help with a sore throat if you get one - keep the throat always wet and it won't hurt so bad. I always buy medicinal tea for treating a cold and it seems to help to ease the symptoms. The one I buy contains willobark, lime tree blossoms, licorice root, elderblossoms, meadowsweet blossoms, mullein, peppermint, chamomille, dandelion and peonyblossoms. Quite a mix.. but it works. Especially willowbark lowers fever, pain and is anti-inflammatory. Maybe a drugstore or pharmacy has something similar. Get well soon.
Thanks. I've been consuming hige volumes of Gatorade to stay hydrated. That's always important when one has a cold, but it's especially vital in this heat.
I just came recently on JU but I found it really curious that you are knitting as well. I mean you have to admit that it would be a strange sight to see someone knitting in a truckstop or bar.. no wonder people comment on it. But I think it's really cool that you do, knitting is a very old cultural technique, thousands of years old. Everybody should know how, and at least youll always have warm socks around.
Thanks. I made a short visit to the local saloon last evening. It's really more of a country dance club with a lot of very young people. Not really my kind of place and that, combined with my not feeling very well, caused me to make it a very short visit. I stayed long enough to drink a couple of cold ones, which tasted quite good after coming in out of the heat. I did spend a few minutes knitting and had several of the young ladies who work there gathered around to check it out and talk to me. A couple of them also knit and were especially interested in my work. While those ladies are far too young for an old fart like me, I have to admit I quite enjoyed that bit. 
