Bonny
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Apr 27, 2015 10:58:40 GMT -5
Post by Bonny on Apr 27, 2015 10:58:40 GMT -5
I want tea in a fancy cup when sick served in a fancy tea pot. This week I am not sick but got a new whistling tea kettle from Amazon.com so drinking tea in the fancy tea cups with saucers that were my mom's and one I had before. Tea is just better in cute little tea cups. I have a metal tea pot like in a Chinese restaurant that keeps my tea really hot. When sick someone else should make you tea and chicken soup. Your post reminds me of a sweet memory of serving tea in one of DH's grandmother's fancy tea pots and cups while we lived in Germany. I'm normally a mug kind of person (and definitely don't trust myself around delicate things when I'm not feeling well) but it's nice to use the pretty stuff once in a while.
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Bonny
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Post by Bonny on Apr 27, 2015 11:07:43 GMT -5
Bonny - hope you're feeling better soon. May I suggest (after a Dr's visit) hot steamy showers and chicken soup? And, of course, plenty of rest, which it sounds like you're getting. FWIW - there have been actual studies that prove chicken soup has anti-microbial properties... abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=117888 Thanks and I am feeling a little better. Not so tight in the chest and I'm crediting the Robitussen for helping to clear stuff out. Now the trick is not over-doing it because I feel a little better. Just took the recycling out and climbed up a flight of stairs. I feel empathy for folks who have COPD!
And DH has been a champ...perhaps overly so. Remember I am married to a technical Jew so the chicken soup is mandatory. I swear I have never seen people like he and his mom who get into being sick. My mom would tell us to go to our rooms so we wouldn't spread our germs and get her sick! I generally just want to be left alone.
So far my favorite home remedy has been to make a steamy bath and drink a big mug of green tea and read a good book.
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TheOtherMe
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Apr 28, 2015 18:15:17 GMT -5
Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 28, 2015 18:15:17 GMT -5
Did you go to the doctor or just the over the counter Robitussen? I have found when I am really sick the over the counter cough medicine just doesn't cut it. I need the kind I can only get with a prescription.
I do hope you are feeling better and it sounds like you are on the mend.
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Bonny
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Post by Bonny on Apr 29, 2015 10:03:22 GMT -5
TheOtherMe,
I had called the Kaiser Advice line on Sat and the Advice Nurse recommended the over the counter Robitussen. It's helped but I'm going to need another bottle!
I sound terrible as my voice is all over the place but I am feeling better. I just have to take it slow. We went to Costco yesterday afternoon and it just about wiped me out, LOL. I'm finding I can handle about one task per day and that's about it. I also think I'll probably drop a couple of pounds. There's a silver lining in everything!
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