Omelet wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Strangely, given that I haven't been sick in years, I've had flu twice
this season, the first time starting in the last week of September and
running into early October and again starting a couple of days before
Christmas and running into mid-January. Fortunately my bouts of it
weren't too severe, but I really feel for the folks who've got it
especially bad.