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Thursday, June 19, 2003
Summer colds J. has officially acquired a cold, and I'm starting to get it; my throat's scratchy and my nose is starting to itch. Feh. Colds ought to stay a winter disease; whenever I get them, I want to have hot tea, and hot water with lemon juice and honey, and hot soup, and curl up under a heap of blankets. And you just can't do that when it's over 80 degrees. (Well, you can, but you won't be comfortable.) J.'s staying home today. I hope he gets better soon. When I get sick, I stay sick. I have an untreatable anemia—the blood can't absorb iron, so iron supplements won't help—and it makes it much harder for me to fight off diseases. If everyone else is sick for a week, I'm sick for two weeks. Or more. I usually acquire a cough in January and keep coughing till April. It sucks. Oh well. I'll go to a Chinese restaurant for lunch today, and order hot-and-sour soup; it's a sure sinus-clearer. And when I get home, I'll make some hot spiked lemonade: One tablespoon each of honey, sugar, lemon juice, and rum in a mug of hot water. The steam relieves congestion, the honey soothes, the lemon juice dries membranes and adds vitamin C, and the rum just makes you feel good. It's not medicine, but it's a remedy, and sometimes that's almost as good. [ at 9:45 AM • by Abby • permalink • ] |
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