I really don't have time for this NOW!

[Fyrie]

So - we're moving, in 2 steps, we had to be out of our old house this past weekend, and our new house is ready in a little over 2 weeks. Also this is a holiday weekend up here in Canada for Thanksgiving, which is busy for me because it's also time for my birthday.

Well - 2 days ago after we got all the stuff moved and all I started feeling like complete crap. Like I've never felt this bad kind of sick - which isn't easy because well chronic pain illnesses generally leave me feeling like cray.

Anyway, I felt pretty much like the end was near, I was soon to see the light at the end of the tunnel and move toward it, I asked multiple times to be taken to the hospital but no one understood what I was trying to say because I was shivvering so violently and then feverish and wasn't making sense I guess.

The next day I got into the doctor, who proceeded to tell me *4* times how very ill I was because I had a bad strep throat infection but that it had agressively and unusually moved to my chest and I had pneumonia as well.

I just don't have time for this now!! Make it go away!

[Puckster]

Chicken soup. It cures everything. (I wish)

I do hope you get to feeling better soon. I know moving is a complete pain and being that freaking sick doesn't help it at all.

[Rozen]

Motrin and Water walk it off solider.....


if you laugh you have been in the army.

Take the meds the doc gives you and sleep, trust me sleep is a life saver for sickness

[Soria]

Ginger tea.. I just read about this, but if you simmer ginger to make a tea, it really helps. ( even if it isn't a stomach problem)

[Kelssy]

Pneumonia sucks, You are gonna have to be very careful for years not to get a cold or it will come right back. What percent of your lungs were involved? That will have a lot to do with if you get put on a nebulizer, be prepared for the bong and reefer jokes. I hope you get to feeling better soon I'd like to say get better but that is gonna be a while. Don't go off your meds even if you get to feeling better, it will take a while for your lungs to clear and heal.

[Satrah]

*hugs* I can totally understand where you're coming from. Had times where I've been planning and doing things to find myself sick right in the middle of it.

And pretty much saying what you've said "I really DON'T have time for this now!! Make it go away!!!"

Get rest when you can, (Even if your body forces it on you...take it.) take your medicine, and take time to let your body heal.

*hugs*

[Rifter]

I used to get strep throat a lot as a kid, since I grew up in the mighty plains of Saskatchewan with winters easily exceeding -40 degrees celcius (which actually turns out to be the same measurement in fahrenheit,) and I'd run around at recess or lunch break.

The best I can offer are sleep and slurpees. About the only way you can battle it is with a good, strong dosage of antibiotics, which the doctor has probably already prescribed. (Make sure you pick up a bottle of Acidophilus when it's all cleared up, to get that good-bacteria, typically found in yogurt, back into your body, as well.)

And relax! Trust me, the worst thing for your body when you are sick is stress. My aunt is a nurse, and she says she sees about a 50% increase in the amount of young-adults who come in after school lets out for Christmas and Summer, all because of the stress that's associated with getting work/tests done before those dates. So kick back, throw on some slippers, fire up the 'tube, and rock out.

Hope you feel better soon!

[Insomniac]

The only "wisdom" I can offer is chamomile tea. With honey. Honey actually has stuff in it that eases sore throats. When I was a freshman in college, I got strep seven times. Come to find out, my husband is what's considered a "carrier", and I'm unusually susceptible to strep. :? I usually get it in the spring and fall now. I just drink lots of hot tea, make sure I take my vitamins (especially C and zinc), and wait it out....

[UpYours]

Here are a few of good food facts for sick people:

1) Sprite is good for you if you have a sore throat. Usually sick people with sore throats dont eat much, so the sugar helps with that. The fizz makes it easy to swallow, and it contains no Caffeen, which causes dehydration.

2) Chicken soup (made with REAL chicken that wasn't precooked) contains natural anti biotics that do actually help with sicknessess. Plus the liquids and heat help a bunch.

3) A big cup of any kind of tea you want (caffeen free preffered), after tea is ready toss 1 cube of ice and let it melt. After it is melted, add 1 flat teaspoon of honey, and 1 teaspoon of real lemon juice (The kind you cook with, not the kind you drink).
Also, brown sugar is your friend. Contains more useful nutriants(sp).

4) If you CAN swallow foods, avoid anything cheesy / buttery / milky. Those things cause mucus to form in your throat, and mucus does nothing to help infections.

5) DRINK AS MUCH WATER AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN. When you have a fever, your body releases extra sweat to cool itself down. Along with 50 other reasons as to why your body loses more liquids when it is sick.

Hope this helped.

[Swarfy]

Honey is a natural Anitbiotic, take one tablespoon at least every two hours, more or less depending on how you feel, or mix it in with hot tea, it will also distract some of the flavor if you don't like ginger. Don't eat/Drink ANY dairy products, it will make it feel worse. Drink a lot of water, but don't chug it (I learned this on the hard way). Ginger tea, Chamomile tea, dont' cool them donw, drink them hot, it will help break up the phlem. If at all possible make(or have someone) homemade chicken soup. It's better than the store bought. Have somebody get you nyquil. Stya in bed and get A LOT of sleep.

Hope this helps, my mom is also a botanist, and used everything above on me whenever I got sick, if i could find it i would give you my mom's recipe for her vodka mixure(yes vodka, it had herbs and all the good stuff in it. Usually got rid of anything me or my brothers had in about a day... literally.) I'll ask her for it tomorrow when I see her next.

Good luck and get better soon... :)