Colds According to a Singer

Sometimes there's this thing called I have a cold and it is gross and yucky and painful and horrible.

Ok. Not that bad. But you know how when you have a cold it's like the end of the world? You wake up, swallow, clutch your throat while your brain screams "I'M DYING THERE IS FIRE IN MY ESOPHAGUS." Obviously, your brain screams this because your throat is currently burning. Duh.

Well, for singers, it is doubly the end of the world. Some of the thoughts that swim through our (and by our, I mean mine, because maybe I'm just crazy) minds are as follows:

I will never sing again.

Someone. Get. Me. Some. Tea. With. Lemon.

I am NOT singing at rehearsal today.  

I have to cancel my voice lesson, my voice teacher will kill me. I'm dead.

No talking today. Where's my whiteboard?

*sob* I just wanna siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing *sob* *sob*

*gasp* What if I lose all my technique? MY CAREER IS OVER.

WHERE'S MY EMERGEN-C?!?!?!

Well, I guess this means I can be a diva for a couple of days.

Oh no. My director is going to think I'm such a diva for not being able to sing today.  

I don't wanna be a divaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

My larynx is on fire. I'm dying.

*sniff* My glaaaaaaaaaaaaands. 

Oooh! Tea!

Needless to say, don't sass a singer with a cold. Just calmly smile and hand her some tea.

Now, where is my Emergen-C.....