@lilac -- feel better! I think our immune systems readjust when we stop drinking, and this is the time of year when lots of viruses are making the rounds anyway. I got a cold early on in my recovery, too, and I rarely get sick. My theory, and this is not medical advice in any way, is that my body was no longer fighting the effects of all the poison I was routinely dumping into it, so it relaxed its defenses more than usual. Wham!