[Magdalen] Still sick

[Jay Weigel]

I can remember my mom sitting in the bathroom running the shower full on
with my youngest brother sho was a crouper. I don't recall that I or my
other brother ever had it, although my other brother was prone to asthmatic
bronchitis. I got the ear infections.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> LOL, Molly!
> Well, not about your feeling the effects of your chemo, of course...
>
> When my son was about ten months old, he had a terrible cough, and it was
> so bad one night that I called or pediatrician, who told me to bring the
> baby to the phone. He listened and then said it was croup, and that I
> should take him the bathroom and run a hot shower for the steam.
> Then he said I could make a mixture of equal parts honey, lemon juice and
> bourbon. Disbelieving what I'd heard, I said, "bourbon???"
> "Or," the doctor replied drily, "you could drink the bourbon!"
>
> > On Feb 6, 2017, at 3:57 PM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:
> >
> > There is the time-honoured Vermont receipt for the treatment of such
> illnesses: "take the fifth part of the juice of a gallon of whiskey."  I
> always wondered what became of the rind...
> >
> > Hot lemon, ginger, and honey may at least be of comfort.  Also, the
> fumes of Vick's Vapo-Rub will cut through the crud.
> >
> > Bad mycoplasmids, get thee gone!
> >
> > Molly
> >
> > The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in
> no other way. -- Mark Twain
> >
> >> On Feb 6, 2017, at 3:50 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm back from the doctor's.  I have a definite sinus infection and a
> >> possible mycoplasma infection that is trying to become pneumonia.  I
> >> had that a few years ago and it was misery.  Anyway, I'm waiting to
> >> pick up an antibiotic and a cough mixture from the pharmacy.  Mucinex
> >> = guiafensin which is what I'm allergic to and it's in almost all OTC
> >> cough meds.
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> They say now that most cough syrup is ineffective anyway. I generally
> take
> >>> Sambucol, which is an elderberry concoction, and it does work just as
> well
> >>> as anything else, it appears. If I have a lot of crud I might take
> Mucinex,
> >>> but that's very hard for me to get down as the pills are so large, and
> it
> >>> tastes hideous. If things get really bad I might resort to the old
> mountain
> >>> concoction of one part each honey, lemon juice, and whiskey and take
> to my
> >>> bed, but ugh. So far this season I've been spared.
> >>>
> >>>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Part of the problem is I shouldn't take much sudafed because of my
> >>>> blood pressure and I'm allergic to guiafensin, the expectorant in
> >>>> cough syrup!  Medication options are limited unless this calls for
> >>>> antibiotics and I'm not sure that it does.  This may just call for the
> >>>> laying on of trusted medical hands!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>> Susan, this sounds miserable.  Hope your doctor will give an
> effective
> >>>>> medication.  Feel better.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ginga
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I've had a bad cold for about 10 days now and I can't seem to get
> over
> >>>>>> it.  Middle of last week I also broke out in hives, probably from
> >>>>>> stress.  Work stress is part of it but most of it is dismay at US
> >>>>>> politics. I've been hammered on antihistamines for days. This
> weekend
> >>>>>> I stayed away from the computer until now and that helped a
> little.  I
> >>>>>> finally finished a sewing project I've had in progress since
> >>>>>> Christmas.  It's a fleece bunting/snowsuit for friends' baby and I
> >>>>>> hope he hasn't already outgrown it.  I have been so busy with work I
> >>>>>> couldn't find time to settle to it and the damned thing had
> >>>>>> impenetrable instructions.  I've been sewing for fifty years and
> >>>>>> finally just had to wing it.  It is cute and cuddly and I hope to
> get
> >>>>>> it in the mail tomorrow.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I have some sweet and sour red cabbage quietly braising and will
> have
> >>>>>> it with a breaded pork cutlet and a baked spud.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I think I am going to call my doctor tomorrow and see if I can get
> in
> >>>>>> to see him.  I have coughed until my ribs hurt with no let up.
> Sadly,
> >>>>>> I'm pretty sure I picked this up in his office since I came down
> with
> >>>>>> it 2 days after I had been there for a routine visit.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
> >>>>>> you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in
> the
> >>>>>> land of Egypt.
> >>>>>> Leviticus 19:34
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
> >>>> you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
> >>>> land of Egypt.
> >>>> Leviticus 19:34
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
> >> you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
> >> land of Egypt.
> >> Leviticus 19:34
> >
>