The nights are always the worst, with congestion. The desire to lie down, and the fluid dynamics of the sinuses, are not compatible with sleep. Nyquil™ got me nicely into a snoring coma, but didn't keep me there. Wound up taking a hot shower at 0200, and making up a bed with lots of pillows, on the couch. Read myself back to weird dreams.
Adding cayenne to my tea on Friday resolved the worst of the raw throat. Strong ginger ale is nice. Read and dozed and idled today. Damn virus.
Stuffy headed, muddy minded.
Still, a weekend to heal.
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Must try the ginger remedy.
Tom,
We get this stuff,
http://cocknbull.us/cockn-bull-products/#original-ginger-beer
I've always found it mildly entertaining how if I lie on one side the sinuses empty out into the cavity closest to the bed due to gravity and I can breathe freely through the nostril furthest from the bed, and then I turn over to lie on my other side and all of the gunk travels to the lower side again.
It certainly isn't any fun; I wasn't well a few weeks ago.
Also, your point about night time being worse... if ever some amount of sleep carries me into the morning, usually I can pass through the first three or four sevenths of the day feeling passable, but then it steadily gets worse.
I hope you and D both feel well sooner, rather than later.
Phil,
Dunno about 'entertaining', certainly instructive. A useful phenomenon.
i am going to give you a recipe, because you love those. call it medicinal. it is handy and tasty.
take an empty two liter soda bottle, a clean one. put a cup or so of sugar in the bottom, and some grated citrus peel lemon, lime, orange, whatever. add whatever you like. vanilla, lavender, or nothing. put in the juice of at least one lemon. then take a hunk of ginger the size of your thumb or maybe four times that and grate it and stuff it, pulp and juice, in there. toss in a few grains of yeast (any kind will do)and fill the rest of the bottle with cool water. put the lid on tight and let it sit on the counter a while.
depending on how warm you house is and how much sugar and yeast you used, leave it alone for a half day or a day or a week until the bottle is pretty much pressurized. then stick it in the fridge for a week or two, maybe only a few days. shake it every now and again to mix it up.
when you're ready, strain it. if you want, use a coffee filter. maybe let it settle again and decant it if you want, but there you have it. ginger ale.
satisfying and medicinal.
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