Sore throat, then congestion: Common Covid symptoms follow a pattern now, doctors say

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. I think your information about mucus is accurate.

I have allergies, am constantly sneezing an blowing my nose. Clear mucus.

In my younger days (I'm now 75) when I had a cold it was always accompanied with thick yellow or greenish mucus.

There are a couple of hundred different cold viruses, and once you've had a specific cold virus, you're permanently immune from that particular one. Which is why young people, especially children, get lots and lots and lots of colds. If you get enough, and live long enough, you almost never come into contact with a new to you cold virus. Hooray! I think I had my last cold at least five years ago. I've probably had no more than three or four colds in the last 15 years.

I do have the remarkable good fortune to be extremely healthy overall. I fell about a month ago and got a compression fracture of the ulna on my left arm. I'm now completely healed. I was in a splint for three days, and went to a PT assessment three days ago. By then I had gained full mobility of that arm. The PT person didn't exactly say, "Why are you wasting my time here?" I said that for her, and she laughed. An assessment scheduled for 45 minutes lasted less than 15.

I know that many other people my age simply don't bounce back this quickly, and I constantly remind myself to be grateful and appreciative.