Flu

[louiselux]

I had a toffee waffle and some tea and now my head aches slightly.

I've had the flu, my doctor said. I don't wish it on anyone. It has a lovely wide range of symptoms! I have never had such an upsetting frustrating cough in my life, the sort where it wakes you up all night long and your coughs begin to make other people look around for the sealion that got in... Cough medicine is useless against a cough like that, I found. I put my faith in honey, fizzy vitamin C tablets and hot marmite. Not all at the same time, I hasten to add. I like to think they helped.

Anyway, it's going. At last!

Comments

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, Marmite!

I recommend a Whizzbang. Start with a Lemsip, add honey to taste, then a generous slug of whisky. Retire to bed before it kicks in, or make sure you have somewhere comfortable to pass out.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

heheh Drambuie is my 'medicine' of choice...I'm not much of a whisky person.

Marmite on toast...yummm...Also marmite with hot boiling water as a kind of a weak soup helps convalescing too. ^__^

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Heh, my mother was never really a drinker but her favorite cold remedy was fairly similar -- hot water mixed with fresh Meyer lemon juice (oh how I miss that tree), honey, and a shot of whiskey. Good for what ails you!

And mmm, toasty yeasty goodness. Although I have fallen under heretical Australian influences, and thus prefer Vegemite on my toast. :)

Yessss

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

I met a man from Brussels
he was 6 foot four and full of muscles
I said-a, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwige." aaaah the nostalgia of the eighties...whoops showing the age there! ^__~