I’ve had a fever every day for 8 days and I’m so pissed off.

[gina]

@lovedforever Jesus, this is awful!! I really hope you start to improve. I swear since my child started daycare 3 years ago every fall and winter turns into a gauntlet of sickness. A Hunger Games of microbes. Just illness after illness. I enforce mandatory family hand washing throughout the day because if I get pink eye or strep throat one more god damn time I’m going to turn into one of those off grid weirdos who homeschools from a bunker in Alaska.

 

[lovedforever]

@gina Thanks and same to you! Today was much better. My little disease vector returned to school today sooooooo… wanna go halves on the bunker? I promise we’ll stick to our own side!

 

[grace11133333]

@gina No advice but if you wrote a book I would buy it. Feel better

 

[quangbi5944a]

@gina Leeches?

 

[savedbygrace1999]

@gina I actually had whatever this was as recently as last week. I was sick for 21 days and honestly? Could’ve used more recovery time. I ended up actually getting pneumonia the last 2 weeks of it I kept the humidifier running 24/7 and that did help some with the debilitating cough. Also, make sure you’re getting up to stretch so you don’t get blood clots! And get an incentive spirometer off of Amazon

 

[tiredgradstudent]

@gina https://www.pleva.cz/en/a/a-miracle-syrup-of-ginger-honey-cloves-and-lemon

This [sup][sup][sup]^[/sup][/sup][/sup] I highly recommend and it’s what I use. As soon as you start feeling sick, one spoonful! Or throughout my sickness I use ginger tea or echinacea tea with a few spoonfuls of it. I hope you feel better!! It’s no fun being sick.

 

[tumisho]

@gina Greek mountain tea! I nearly died of whooping cough my first year teaching, and an angel of an Albanian mother to one of my students introduced me to this herbal miracle worker. Brew a strong cup using buds, stems, leaves, alllll of it; boil for 5 minutes, steep another 5 minutes. Add as much honey as your heart desires, a generous squirt of lemon juice, and as weird as this sounds, a pat of butter. Soothes the throat, warms the chest to help break up mucus, hydrates you, and honestly if holding a warm mug of tea wrapped in a blanket doesn't make you feel just a smidgen better you're probably dead by morning anyhow.

 

[matt21]

@gina Liposomal vitamin C and zinc are my go-tos

My husband had a similar sickness a few weeks ago that finally went away after 7 days.

 

[tuy%E1%BA%BFt4634]

@gina Elderberry Sambucol is a miracle drug.

 

[gina]

@tuy%E1%BA%BFt4634 So far this is the only treatment that sounds like it may be palatable so thank you for that.

 

[jesilyn]

@gina Any updates OP?

 

[gina]

@jesilyn I’m alive!! Thank you so much for asking. I took what everyone was saying to heart and took several more days off work. I think it kept me from getting worse. I was sick for over 3 weeks so pretty sure I had walking pneumonia.

 

[wearethechristiangems]

@gina Okay if you’re serious about the hippy dippy recipe, do this: get a cup of apple cider vinegar, a couple of slices of fresh onion, a couple of garlic cloves, a cinnamon stick (or you can do ground cinnamon), a few slices of fresh jalapeño pepper (or the whole thing sliced in half if you think you can handle the spice) and like a tablespoon of turmeric.

Mix all that together in a jar or even a Tupperware with a lid and let it sit in the fridge for at least 2 hours (but overnight is better). Then fish out the solid stuff and chug the rest.

It will taste like someone pickled satan’s asshole but you’ll feel better in a couple hours.