Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Sick... But in a bad way

For the fourth straight day I've woken up feeling the exact same way. Sore throat, extremely tired, extremely weak, headache, and a fever (100.5). I've tried almost everything I can think of to fix it... Sweating it out by playing a hockey game, Tylenol, Ibuprofen, Codeine, Vicks Vaporub, Tea with honey, hot water and lemon, gargle salt water 4 times a day, cough drops, sprite, orange juice, soup with extra garlic, vitamins, coldfx, hot showers, cold wash cloths, sleep... I then missed a game because of this, which is, I guess, unheard of because North Americans are supposed to tough it out through anything... especially tough it out through 'just a small case of the sniffles.' Dutch people have a thing against antibiotics and use it only as a very last resort. As kids they are sick quite a bit, but they pride themselves in not being sick when they are older because they have developed such a strong immune system. Moral of the story is that antibiotics really aren't going to play a factor here. So... Just in case... does somebody I don't normally talk to have a miracle cure that I'm missing...?

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