Plague...I think my wife gave it to me

[Grant H.]

My wife tried to get me sick last week. She works in an office where lots of people don't think they can take time off when sick, so they show up half dead and spread it around.

She went down for the count on Sunday with a fever, cough, and generally feeling poor, and still had the fever yesterday when I talked to her (I had to get on a plane).

I started to get the sore muscles and general drained feeling, but I managed to kick it with Vitamin C, Thieves Oil, Zinc, and Garlic. Yes, garlic. Take a clove of fresh garlic, peel it, chop it into swallowable pieces, and take like a vitamin. It'll kick the crud pretty effectively.

[OldFogey]

Hey ey eyYYYeeeeyyyy, take Ibuprofen every day.

Taking it daily can be hard on your kidneys. Got warned back in my athletically active days.

[Irving]

Taking it daily can be hard on your kidneys. Got warned back in my athletically active days.

Correct. That was a Snoop Dogg/weed joke.

[Justin]

Is bourbon a "med"?

Yes.

[ChickNorris]

Skaal

Cheers

Bottoms up

[Gman]

Is bourbon a "med"?

Absolutely. It's an antibacterial agent, best applied orally.

The spousal unit ended up at 102.7 last night, went down after some acetaminophen and was back at 102.7 again this morning. She was 99.5 at lunch time so hopefully she's on the flip-side of this bug.

[ChickNorris]

Holy flattening illness, Batman...2 days in and can hardly move. I have to work tomorrow...

How did you fare?

[TFOGGER]

Bailed after I got the essential stuff done at work, came home and took a scalding hot shower, then chugged a half a bottle of Nyquil and took a nap for a couple of hours. Feeling much better...not quite human, but better.

[theGinsue]

No flu here, but picked up a nasty head cold.

Sunday around noon I started sneezing a lot and noticed I was getting a severe runny nose. By Monday morning it was a full-fledged head cold. I barely slept last night and dragged all day @ work today - being careful to stay well away from everyone else. So congested I can barely hear. Just drank one of those new TheraFlu PowerPods (they only had the Daytime ones @ my local King Soopers) and am going to take a nap now - or just go to bed for the night.

[68Charger]

Is bourbon a "med"?

I'm past the worst of it, just lingering cough that's annoying AF

So I picked up 1.5L of this particular med... at least while on it, I don't cough... even when I do, I don't care.

I've got too much stuff to do, don't have time for this being sick crap.