In article >,
flitterbit > wrote:

> Blinky the Shark wrote:
> > I feel like shit. I may have about ten minutes, here, before I have to go
> > back to bed. Can't sleep, but don't have the energy to do anything else,
> > either -- not even read. (And that just kills me.) So I've been flashing
> > back to little home remedies from growing up in the 1950s...
> >
> > I think sometimes Mom would give me small amounts of what I remember as a
> > weak solution of sugar in water. Ever heard of that?
> >
> > Burnt Toast: I distinctly remember Mom burning a slice of toast and
> > scraping the ashes into a glass of water. I guess this was to settle a
> > stomach (the charcoal or whateveer) -- probably more from acid upset than
> > from feeling urpy.
> >
> > Liquid Jell-O. I guess that was a variant on sugar water; it's not like
> > there was sugar-free Jell-0 in 1953.
> >
> >
> Hope you're starting to feel better; the bugs going around this year
> seem to be especially nasty ones.

Seems Flu' season was really delayed.
We are getting a LOT of positive flu' swabs this week from the ER.

We were not so much earlier in January.
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