Got an email recently from Elisa, who is a longtime listener of this podcast.

Alisa, thanks for listening.

Thanks for your note.

She said she caught, I think she used the word horrendous.

A horrendous upper respiratory infection, and it sounds like she got it from, it was a gift from her granddaughter, who had started attending a new daycare. Maybe recently you could hear it in my voice that I had a bit of a cold.

Ava laughs, and I can laugh with her sometimes.

When I get sick, when I get a cold in particular, I get a little whiny.

Because colds, I mean, if you've had a cold, if you've had an upper respiratory infection, they're not fun.

In fact, sometimes I think we ought to rename colds because cold just sounds so, eh.

But of course, at least mine, feel far worse than years ago.

It was probably decades ago.

I was on the air doing my morning show and I had a cold.

I usually get a couple of colds a year.

So I was on the air talking about the cold that I had and was apologizing for how I sounded.

And I must have done this several times.

And finally, a listener called the radio station, didn't talk to me, talked to

somebody else, who then relayed the message to me, said, yeah, some guy just called, he said,

you sound fine, stop whining.

It's like, okay.

So I've learned that I probably never sound quite as bad as I think I do. But I had a cold recently,

and you might have heard that. But here's the question. When you have a cold, is it okay

to keep that fitness promise and take that walk? By the way, Elisa, in her email, let me know

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