Hot herbal tea, hot soup and lots of rest! I’m sorry your sick. I heard this has been a horrible flu season this year. Hopefully no one else in your family catches it! *Passes Patti a hot cup of lavender tea*

hmmmm… what DOES a vegan do without chicken soup when ill?? That is my go-to when sick. That and 7-Up.

From my nursing school days, our instructor’s advice for treating pneumonia patients was to “keep the pulmonary toilet flushing.”
-Lots of liquids = thinner mucous.
-Huff coughing to expel it.
-(I know you won’t feel like it, but) get up and move because you are actually using your lungs more and the mucous *has* to move.
-“Turn, cough, deep breathe every 2 hours” is standard protocol for patients who are bedridden.
-And my personal favorite is a warm steamy shower, even though that’s the last thing you think you want.

I hope you feel better soon! (Would another call from Billy help? ;> )

I don’t have any home remedies – just drink plenty of fluids to keep you hydrated. Sleep a lot! And feel better soon!

One of my favorite people is a retired pastor who at least weekly sends a post from “The Pastor’s Scrapbook.”

This is the one that arrived this morning:

Luke 10:25-37 – The Old Familiar Good Samaritan
“Everyone is your neighbor. You should help them even if it’s dangerous,
and even if they’re your enemy.”

Read it again, and be not comforted.

Oh sweet Patti!
I would put a dime size spot of olive oil (or sweet almond or whatever you have) in your palm, then drop about 8 drops of pure oregano oil, about 5 drops of teatree or eucalyptus or melaleuca oil, mix, and rub on the bottoms of your feet. Then, wash your hands WELL. Only the soles of your feet can tolerate the strength of oregano oil. Next, a quarter size spot of oil, then 6 drops (or so) of lavendar oil, 6 drops of teatree oil, mix and rub all over your shoulders, neck, chest and back.
Also, garlic tea is a miracle cure:
boil water, add chopped clove of garlic
let it steep
add some honey and some fresh lemon juice
enjoy! it might sound horrible, but it’s really delicious.
Next:
onion poultice for chest
chop onions and put them into a tea towel. place in warmed (low temp) oven just until you can smell them. Place on chest. It works wonders to thin mucous and bring up chest congestion.
I’d also be taking tinctures every four hours: astragalus and echinicea.
And of course mega doses of Vitamin C.
And yes, the best thing of all is hot tea, a funny movie or funny book, fresh flowers in a vase beside you, and never forget
you are loved and cherished by SOOOOOOOO many!! We’ll be thinking of you and you’ll be healthy before you were even ready to give up the whining! ;o)

From Little Women, which I am reading for the n-th time:

My dear girls, I am ambitious for you, but not to have you make a dash in the world, – marry rich men merely because they are rich, or have splendid houses, which are not homes because love is wanting. Money is a needful and precious thing, – and, when well used, a noble thing, – but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I’d rather see you poor men’s wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

medicinal hot drink;
Fresh Ginger Root, Honey, Lemon, Cinnamon and if you can handle them- add fresh crushed Garlic and a dash of Cayenne too.

also, Miso soup seems to have magical healing powers.

I am reading an article- it’s 4 pages long
here is an excerpt and a link…I find knowing what we can act on (as activists) important- so here is a link:
http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/movies/feature/2002/08/27/women_directors/

2.22.2008
Sleep, n.

That state of an animal in which the voluntary exertion of his mental and corporeal powers is suspended, and he rests unconscious of what passes around him, and not affected by the ordinary impressions of external objects.

: Situation

Webster’s Daily returns [Ed. Note]

Apologies for the absence of several months. We now return to your regularly scheduled programming.

http://webstersdaily.blogspot.com/

Take a vit D every day, (this really boosts your immunity) and , of course, plenty of C, Also, to help you breathe, some eucalyptus oil from the health food store rubbed under your nose is a must!!! also, a multiple B doesn’t hurt. I haven’t had a cold or the flu in over 20 years!!! I hear the flu is must worse this year because the flu shot doesn’t quite match the virus which is going around. Hope you recover soon!
Rose

Sun Dog, by Monique Roffey –

‘Soon afterwards, he’d found the first bud under his tongue:tiny, like a swamp mussel. He’d let it stay sucking at the bed of his mouth, a minute angel, a pearl, a pulse. It made him feel relaxed, the opposite of ill. It gave him a strange sense of solace. For the first time in his life, apart from when he danced, he sensed a calmness in his blood, an ease in himself. Balance. He stopped taking notes when the buds appeared in clusters. His body delighted and frightened him at once. Buds appeared all over his body, egg-greyish hives. He’d thrown away his notebook, torn up the charts. Instinct told him there was no reason to panic, there would be an answer. Whatever was happening had its own methods, its own logic. He would watch and wait, see it out. He never went back to the doctor.’

Be well soon.

Last year in about June (winter in this part of the world) I caught a head cold. Felt miserable, and to make it worse, was about to jump on a plane and travel to somehwre now forgotten. All I could think of was the pain my sinuses would have to endure. So off to the doc I trotted. His suggestion? Beyond garlic and horseradish tabs, hot lemon, rest and paracetemol for the pain? A swim. Yes a swim – not in a nice warm pool, but in the ocean. The southern ocean. With water temperatures of 12 degrees! I think he was mad – I went home and had a drink instead.