Dear Owen,
we still love you despite the fact you caught a cold! I mean really. Keep up your good spirits and don't hide your words of wisdom and encouragement!
Your symptoms exactly matched my symptoms when I got a cold few weeks ago, it continued for about six days or so. Nothing helped, even trippled vit.C doses, Colloidal Silver , etc. I think, Owen, it just happened that some nasty mutated virus escaped wrath of vit. C. Maybe it hid where C couldn't reach it or its gram-negative type outer shell was very tough to penetrate or something.
Let's look at you cold as the the sign that we are going in the right direction and it worth to fight for a merrier, healthier life.