Cold? Pollen allergies? Really worried

[Jess44246]

I've either got a cold or my pollen allergies are flaring up. Either way, I'm worried. I'm typing fast to sorry about mistakes. I guess heres the story:

My mom has been down with a horrible cold since wednesday or thursday and yeasterday afternoon it started going away. I've been staying as sanitary as I can just as I always do, but it's hard because we're on a camping trip due to the US holiday Memorial Day to honor killed in action troops that fought for the US. I was thinking several time about posting here about how much her constant dry cough was bothering me so much, but I kind of just figured that I'd be wasting all you guys' time. As for the illness, I've had bad pollen allergies so it may be that too. There's a lot of that going on outside this time of year, and today may be the day they're starting up. I woke up to my nose completely stuffed (and I took medicine thas helping a bit) and my throat really hurts. I dont really feel n and haven't v, but worrying is making me feel slight n. Partly because I'm worried to eat something heavy and also because I couldn't eat anything that wasn't soft because of my throat, I had blueberries and water for lunch. So anyway im just quite worried that something more will come out of it. My mother didn't feel n at all but who knows what this is in my body. I'm barely coughing and she had a dry hacking. Once when my mother was sick and coughing all the time I overheard her while I was upstairs doing stuff with sheet music and she told my father (which really set me off) "I don't think I should go to the [fancy] dinner tomorrow night. I'll be coughing so much at the table while I eat that I might start p***ing." I cant help but think about that too, because if it's what she has now then I'll have a sry hacking cough for days! I'm really worried that something will come out of this because I can't handle that! My Emetophobia is really bad and I can't handle it if this sickness leads to legit n (not just from worrying).