Teleidoscope

Wed, Mar 21, 2007

Comfort Food

Posted at 9:03 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

I was fairly sickly as a child and missed a lot of days of school. I was seldom seriously ill (I still have my tonsils) but it seemed like I constantly had low-grade upper-respiratory crud.

Today reminded me of those days: sore throat, sinus headache, minor earaches and dizziness, occasional bouts of nasty coughing, frequent chills and a stomach uninterested in food. The swallowing problems are a recent addition, but make things trickier.

I started drinking tea quite young partly because milk was a very bad idea when I was having these sickly spells. But today my diet reverted even further. In the brief periods I did not spend asleep, my menu has included gingerale, toast and bouillon soup with tiny acini de pepe noodles. All the things my Mom used to give me when I was home sick from school. I tried some clementines a while ago, and I'm not sure yet whether I am going to regret that.

If I was running a fever, I might be able to burn this crud out of my system, but my body temperature, as usual, is running low. I wonder if I should look into one of those home sauna cabinets some day (I'm not the hot tub type).

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