I’ve been in bed with the flu since getting home from work yesterday. Posts will likely be sparse until I feel better.
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I’ve been in bed with the flu since getting home from work yesterday. Posts will likely be sparse until I feel better.
Get well James. Hope you weren’t suckered into a flu shot.
Get well soon.
My sympathy, flu is MISERABLE. Get rest and get well soon.
This is why I always get my flu shot, ever since that last bout in 2003 that laid me low for 2 weeks.
I’m with Wyoming. Flu shots are bullshit. I think they’re designed to get old ladies into drugstores for their “free” ffu shot so that they’ll buy other stuff.
Chicken soup always helps for me. Jewish penicillin we were told as kids was it’s proper name. Worth a try Admin, With plenty of celery, parsley, and carrots.
Admin.,
Lots of Brandy warm, Chicken broth, and Hot Tea. Least you will be well for Xmas.
Take care.
100% recovery in less than 24 hours.
You must use a locally produced garlic, not the kind you get from China that comes two bulbs to the box.
We have done this successfully multiple times, it has never failed.
Garlic and milk….we’ve used it for 40 years or better as a family…works too .
You know how I feel about people taking sick days.
Now you have an excuse to watch TV.
admin,vodka and grapefruit juice always work me.. vodka open ups the air sacs in the lungs to help you breathe better and the grapefruit juice is mostly for taste ,although there is the vitamin C factor working in the background.
Whilst you may not get better any sooner, I guarantee you won’t feel any worse.
Smoke some weed, put your headphones on, relax, and listen to your tunes, I know you have an awesome playlist, besides it will help you sleep and keep your appetite up to feed the fever. It’s herbal!
I forgot, probiotics!
Admin needs to man the fuck up. Chuck Norris doesn’t get the flu ….. the flu gets Chuck Norris!
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Haggis three times a day for a week.
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Hope you feel better soon.
My flu wishlist:
1. tissues, the kind with aloe so they don’t leave your nose raw after two days
2. tv remote or channel pre-set to the Kardashians
3. snacks, lil debbies, twinkies or lime flavored fritos (only available in truck stops)
4. oj, vodka, Gatorade (but no coffee, in case the heart is already racing at 120 bpm)
5. hover round rental to avoid having to crawl to the potty, just drive there
6. pizza delivery
7. 3 strippers but hold the lap dances because I’m sick, remember?
LOL, you can always count of Llpoh to throw a wrench in the Sympathy Index.
I hope you feel better sooner rather than later. Sucks to be sick.
If the sun comes out, please get lots of it, even through a non-tinted window if necessary. The vitamin D our bodies produce is one of the best things that we can do to rid disease and improve immune system – as long as you don’t burn!
Obviously drink lots of fluids, may I suggest comfrey tea (natural antibiotic) or any other, green is great, mixed with raw honey (another antibiotic) and coconut oil (another antibiotic), I make my tea, then add the oil and honey and use a small whisk to mix it to the point of frothiness, yum. This is good even when you are not sick.
Lemon juice and honey mixed together until syrupy is a GREAT bronchodialter, tastes good and also serves to thin your mucous, stop your cough and has no dangerous side effects unless you are allergic..
Most over the counter “cold” meds contain ingredients that actually LOWER your bodies ability to fight off disease. I’m talking things like ibuprofen and robitussin, not the suggestion above. Please use with caution as I found (when I stopped using them) that most of them were causing a worse rebound of symptoms and my illnesses lasted much, much, longer than they do now.
My list of supplements I use if I think I’m coming down with something. They usually are able to ease, if not erradicate, nearly any illness when caught quickly. If used after full blown illness, they help to shorten duration and allow your body to heal itself.
Vitamin D, as much as you are comfortable with. While this supplement can be toxic in huge doses, a few days of higher IUs doesn’t seem to cause any harm. (our bodies produce 50,000 IUs in 20 minutes of strong sun, RDA is 400 IU, nearly worthless) I take 1200-4000 IU daily (I use flavorless drops), if coming down with something I up that to 10-12,000.
Vitamin C, as much as my bowels can handle. Generally around 1000+mg a day
Zinc, one of my least favorite supplement that is so good for me. Because I have a hard time with zinc – it can upset my stomach and make me feel dehydrated, and I hate the metal taste I get – I take it 25mg at a time and nearly everyday. (Helps fend off colds AND will eliminate most nasty body odor when you hit your right amount). If sick I take 25mg, 3 times a day. I actually try to take enough so that I do taste the metal if I’m sick. Yuck, but day-uhm it helps.
Anyway, I hope Avalon reads all these hints and finds that some of them helps you!
Get well, get well soon, we want you to get well….
(can you hear Elaine singing that? I do!)
Two words Admin…Chicken Soup. It works. Feel better soon!
That garlic soup looks interesting and seems to have a normal amount of garlic in it for everyday eating.
My wife and I make a Spanish sopa de ajo con huevo, also known as Sopa Castellana. (search on it) That recipe calls for a dozen or so cloves of garlic but we increase that to three big handfuls of garlic as follows. Roast one big handful of peeled cloves with a tablespoon or two of olive oil, some seasalt and a tablespoon of water in a covered container. Thinly slice another handful of cloves and saute that in olive oil in your main cooking pot. Thinly slice another handful of cloves and set aside. Now follow the recipe like normal but just before you put it in the oven for 4 minutes, add a generous helping of roasted cloves and a generous helping of raw, sliced cloves.
We have this about once a month with a big green salad with ACV and olive oil and either blackened salmon or a good steak. The saffron and smoked Spanish paprika really set it off. Saffron gets kind of spendy so I buy it by the ounce. Costs more than weed!
Maybe this is why I rarely get sick? Mosquitos don’t fuck with me either.
Get well soon admin.
ADMIN
There is really something to the chicken soup legend. Feel better soon.
IS
Trader Joe’s has a really decent price on Saffron. Everything is better with garlic .
Bea, I buy first grade saffron direct from Spain an ounce at a time at harvest time. Depending on current market prices it goes for $160 to $400 an ounce. We use saffron in a lot of foods including ice cream so an ounce lasts about a year. Saffron rice is as common in my home as sticky rice is in an Asian home.
I’ll check out TJ’s out of curiosity. I suspect it might be a 2nd grade saffron.
I didn’t think Irishmen could get sick. Admin has obviously not been drinking his whiskey. For remedy I’d recommend, as a half Irishman myself, taking a bath in a barrel of Jameson’s. Then drink 4 gallons of chicken soup. The last bit is optional.
” …. but we increase that to three big handfuls of garlic as follows.:” ———— I_S
Holy Stinky Shit, Batman!!! THREE HANDFULS???? We have a lot of garlic in the house so I grabbed a handful to see how many that would be ….. 32 cloves …. a 94 clove garlic soup. Yikes!! I’d be safe from vampires ten thousand miles away.
Anyway, I looked up the soup … you actually get English results searching for “Castilian Garlic Soup” … and it does look very tasty ….. but, I don’t think I’ll use 94 fucking garlics.ol
Vitamin D like 5000mg and Fresh Juice!! I haven’t got seriously sick for about 4 years once I started making my own fresh fruit and mostly veggie juice 🙂
Shot of NyQuil and a shot of whiskey – you won’t give a shit afterwards.
Got the flu really bad in ’72 and again in ’88 – the kind that knocks you on your ass. Dr. Blogett DO said opportunistic bacteria compound the problem and you feel like you got hit by a freight train. ( I mention ‘DO’ because they seem to be the kind of doctors who explain shit to you.) Then comes the relapse when you think you’re getting better.
I got a few incidents from shaking hands at church when I had diabetic aids – a weakened immune system due to undiagnosed diabetes. One of the ladies said, but you never get sick. This is because we never went to doctors when we were kids, we made it through with Vicks vaporub and aspirin.
Another cause I suspect is raking leaves, I try to wear a dust mask when doing this because I’ve gotten sick after. The crew chief said his doctor told him it might be the dog shit in the lawn.
Admin
I hope you realize how many friends you have on this site. I find the multitude of varied advice for flu from your readers and supporters to be quite simply amazing. That personal empathy for you is extremely rare, if not unique, on the oft-brutal Internet blogosphere and is a resounding round of applause for both you as a person and your efforts as the Admin of TBP.
Get well soon.
It looks like I had a 24 hour bug. One bad night with a 101 fever. In bed by 6:30 pm and didn’t get out until 10:30 am the next morning. Now I’m back to normal. Or as normal as I can be.
Thank God I didn’t have to use any of those garlic concoctions. I’m guessing I would have been safe from vampires too.
Thanks for all the advice. Avalon is sick too, so she couldn’t baby me.
Anyway, I looked up the soup … you actually get English results searching for “Castilian Garlic Soup” … and it does look very tasty ….. but, I don’t think I’ll use 94 fucking garlics.ol
The Spanish version calls for 2.5 liters of beef stock not chicken broth.
Stucky, I don’t use any of that pansy pussy garlic you get in the store. The heads of garlic I grow are as big as baseballs or bigger and each clove is about the size of your thumb. Each head usually has 4-6 cloves so a big handful is about 10 cloves or less. It’s been years since I used store bought garlic. I planted 28 varieties again this fall. I give most of it away to friends and a couple of eateries.
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Oh yeah, it’s not elephant garlic either but some of it is bigger than elephant garlic.
Good to hear you’re back on your feets, Mr. Admin…
I was going to suggest a mug of hot tea, with a shot of bourbon and honey in it…
Maybe it will work on the missus…
Haggis looks extremely unappealing. But, organ meat is getting a bad rap here.
My dad used to buy tongue and liver and chicken hearts weekly from the German butcher (although tongue is actually a muscle, I think). Tasted great.
In fact, it wasn’t that long ago even in this country when organ meat was revered and saved only for those at the highest echelons of society … the poor ate muscle meat.
Fact is, organ meats are nature’s “multi-vitamin factory”.
Liver contains HUGE amounts of Vitamin A and B12 … three times as much as what contained in muscle meat. Some folks are afraid to consume liver or kidney because these organs filter toxins in the body. While this is true ……… they DON’T STORE toxins! The job of organs like the liver is to REMOVE toxins from the body, and as such, they store many fat soluble vitamins and nutrients needed to accomplish this task.
Organ meats are also more densely packed with just about every nutrient including heavy doses of the other B vitamins (B1, B2, B6, folic acid). They are also LOADED with minerals like phosphorus, iron, copper, magnesium, iodine, calcium, potassium, sodium, selenium, zinc and manganese and provide the important fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. Hearts have about double the protein of muscle meat.
At the end of the day, those Scots may be healthier than you! lol
Admin – 101 temp and into bed? You poor thing.
Haggis won’t cure the flu, but it’ll damn sure put hair on your ass.
IndenturedServant
Dahum, boy ….. you got some big cloves!!!
Things just look bigger in women’s hands.