miserable night
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deird1In retrospect, I really should have bought the butter-menthols.
My night so far consists of waking up every half-hour or so to vomit. Then trying to find yet another butter-menthol substitute around my house...
(Does the rest of the world have butter-menthols? They're cough drops - containing butter and menthol - and are really good for soothing sore throats.)
The interesting bit? I'm not actually sick.
I was sick, a couple of days ago, with a cold. In which, courtesy of a stuffy nose, I ended up with post-nasal drip - which is where you have snot dripping down the back of your throat and irritating you into coughing.
I also (if you recall) have had whooping cough in recent memory. Which means my throat is slightly more sensitive than it should be. So, slight cough became bigger cough, which has now progressed to REALLY HORRIBLE cough that wakes me up every half-hour... originally just to cough and feel lousy, but now I'm actually throwing up from coughing too much.
I need butter-menthols, or similar (used up the cough syrup this morning). I don't have any - but I've already explored the full range of stuff available in my house, from lemsip, to asthma puffers, to soothing drinks, to, most recently, just big spoonfuls of honey. Hopefully it'll calm my throat down enough to last until 7am, when the shops open.
I'd considered buying butter-menthols yesterday, actually, but shrugged and decided I could always get them when I needed them. Hah.
*is miserable*
My night so far consists of waking up every half-hour or so to vomit. Then trying to find yet another butter-menthol substitute around my house...
(Does the rest of the world have butter-menthols? They're cough drops - containing butter and menthol - and are really good for soothing sore throats.)
The interesting bit? I'm not actually sick.
I was sick, a couple of days ago, with a cold. In which, courtesy of a stuffy nose, I ended up with post-nasal drip - which is where you have snot dripping down the back of your throat and irritating you into coughing.
I also (if you recall) have had whooping cough in recent memory. Which means my throat is slightly more sensitive than it should be. So, slight cough became bigger cough, which has now progressed to REALLY HORRIBLE cough that wakes me up every half-hour... originally just to cough and feel lousy, but now I'm actually throwing up from coughing too much.
I need butter-menthols, or similar (used up the cough syrup this morning). I don't have any - but I've already explored the full range of stuff available in my house, from lemsip, to asthma puffers, to soothing drinks, to, most recently, just big spoonfuls of honey. Hopefully it'll calm my throat down enough to last until 7am, when the shops open.
I'd considered buying butter-menthols yesterday, actually, but shrugged and decided I could always get them when I needed them. Hah.
*is miserable*
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Date: 2012-01-01 03:30 pm (UTC)my favourite thang to do - when I used to get colds *note to self,post about that sometime* was to get some of the very thick honey; some really good single malt whisky, butter & worcester(shire) sauce. Boil the water, adding the other ingredients as they suit.
Does nothing to cure the cold, but it sure as hell made me feel better!
:-)
LOL Ray.
ps. could use advice on cooking with squashes; not being a recipe book person (can't follow instructions,and I have a real deep-seated psychological problems with forms etc...).
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Date: 2012-01-01 08:54 pm (UTC)Heh. :)
I actually have a squash-phobia (no, really) so I don't know much about cooking them. What are you trying to do?
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Date: 2012-01-01 04:27 pm (UTC)Irrelevant: I've never heard of butter menthols. They sound very useful - the typical cough drop here is full of enough sugar to try to make the menthol taste pepperminty rather than menthol-y, and "tastes like a cough drop" is a widely-used standard for "tastes awful."
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Date: 2012-01-01 06:04 pm (UTC)Gabrielle
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Date: 2012-01-02 03:22 am (UTC)You poor girl - having a hacking cough is the pits!
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Date: 2012-01-02 06:04 am (UTC)Either way, I do hop you begin to feel better and get lots of lovely rest. *smish*
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Date: 2012-01-03 11:17 am (UTC)Just FYI, if I were in your situation I'd have looked for a petrol station that was 24 hour; they usually have cough lollies.