Wheezles and Sneezles

The holidays beat me up and now I am sick.

This will be abbreviated for I am on day five of being laid up on the couch sick. My face hurts, I sneeze violently, I cough, I have a slight fever, etc. I evaded many ailments all month long and then family arrived for Christmas and some of them got sick. So I got sick.

Anyway, the bright side of this is that I have had a lot of time to knit and I have watched The Lord of the Rings Trilogy from beginning to end once more. I was also reminded of this poem by A.A. Milne called…

Sneezles

Christopher Robin
Had wheezles
And sneezles,
They bundled him
Into
His bed.
They gave him what goes
With a cold in the nose,
And some more for a cold
In the head.
They wondered
If wheezles
Could turn
Into measles,
If sneezles
Would turn
Into mumps;
They examined his chest
For a rash,
And the rest
Of his body for swellings and lumps.
They sent for some doctors
In sneezles
And wheezles
To tell them what ought
To be done.
All sorts and conditions
Of famous physicians
Came hurrying round
At a run.
They all made a note
Of the state of his throat,
They asked if he suffered from thirst;
They asked if the sneezles
Came after the wheezles,
Or if the first sneezle
Came first.
They said, "If you teazle
A sneezle
Or wheezle,
A measle
May easily grow.
But humour or pleazle
The wheezle
Or sneezle,
The measle
Will certainly go."
They expounded the reazles
For sneezles
And wheezles,
The manner of measles
When new.
They said "If he freezles
In draughts and in breezles,
Then PHTHEEZLES
May even ensue."


Christopher Robin
Got up in the morning,
The sneezles had vanished away.
And the look in his eye
Seemed to say to the sky,
"Now, how to amuse them to-day?"

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In spite of how dreadful I felt this week, this poem has made me chuckle a time or two which I have to be careful of, for this can lead to a fit of coughles, sneezles and wheezles and I would hate for that to turn into Phtheezles.

I’m afraid that’s all my poor throbbing head has for you today. Please wish me will and pray that my own sneezles may vanish away very soon.

I have great hopes that they will by next Monday when my normal writing schedule may resume.

That’s all for now. Until next time, folks…