Achoo! (January 1995)

A few days before I was to head off for Colorado, followed by Ecuador and then Spain to live, via one-day's breath-catching in Miami, I started to come down with a yucky cold. "Impossible," I said, "I can't get a cold, I've got too much to do!" I was over to my mom's that night, and she pressed the herbal tea, juice and water on me so well that I was literally peeing every 15 minutes. The next day I was absolutely perfect!