BOARD STUIPD

[cambourne7]

HELP

Hi Guys,

As most of you know i am home in bed with a chest infection have been since thursday last week.

I have another week of being at home in bed, my brain will not allow me to do anything that involves thinking ( any of my PM messages might atest to that ). I cant go out to the garden, allotment, shops.

I cant read any books, bearly watch TV, cant lie down and that just causes me to cough more and eventualy i have to get up to throw up.

Help any suggestions as to what i can do? As i am starting to climb the walls!

Cambourne7

[cambourne7]

[triffid]

Have a long hot deep (thoroughly un-water-conservation-minded  ;)) steamy bath. Aromatic oils like lavender or tea tree will do you good. Karvol is also excellent as a medicinal bath-smelly.

Stick the radio on (somewhere safe, of course!) and veg for as long as you can, breathing deeply.

And drink lots of hot fluids (spiced apple juice with a stick of cinnamon is v v nice when you've got this kind of bug).


Wishing you better :-*

[cambourne7]

thanks triffid

the bath idea is definalty one to try later as it may help me sleep i usualy pop loads of candels on and i have some eucalypus oil in a cup of boiling water to help pepper the steam.

drinking, currently i am drinking about 2 ltrs of water, about 8 cups of tea (black) and about 2 cups of herbal tea. I have pepermint, cranberry, ikebana ( black and green tea with orchid, jasmine and rose ), rubosh and ginger.

[supersprout]

Poor cambourne - at least it's not the growing season too :-*
Knitting (or other maidenly handcraft) and listening to audio books? ::)

[norfolklass]

you beat me to it supersprout, I was just about to suggest audio books! my dad swore by them when he was in hospital.

get well soon, cambourne7 :)

[cambourne7]

haha

maidenly handcraft in my husbands words washing, ironing and dishes!

not done any maidenly handcraft since i left school ( taught by nuns and priests ) so we had to do dressmaking, knitting, singing and cooking.

So when i moved from the lower school where the nuns had a grip of iron to the upper school where there grip was less so i fought back and did carpentry and woodwork with the boys!!

[kenkew]

Sounds like the humour is still there, Cambie...that's a good sign. In fact, seeing as how you are a carpenter with a bad chest, 'appen you can knock yourself up a new one!

[cambourne7]

hehe

yep thats about the only thing still working!

Not sure if i have a bit of wood that big to replace like for like...

[bennettsleg]

Bennettsleg's Patent Cold Get-Ridder-Of

In a mug, place:
juice of half a lemon (vit C dose)
1 measure of craddies ginger wine (ginger heats up the body from within)
1" piece of fresh ginger, pounded and squeezed for the juice (or 1cm piece, finely chopped.  Don't use powdered ginger, it'll taste foul)
1 efferfesent efferphe.. fizzing vitimin C tablet
1 tsp good honey
fill up with boiling water.

Have a hot curry for dinner followed by a very hot bath, drink the drink and go to bed with a hot water bottle. You'll heat up so much all the germs'll be killed off and you'll sweat it out in no time.

[theothermarg]

I,v had this stupid cold and cough for 3 weeks now I,m not ill enough to not go to work but it takes up all my energy and I just mooch around  coughing and
I AM SO BORED WITH MYSELF

[cambourne7]

problem is that i have astma and any bad cold i get tends to turn into a nasty chest infection 2 easly

[cornykev]

GWS

[flossie]

Hope that you are feeling better soon
Try listen again
Radio 4
gardeners question time
Claire in the Community - a real favourite but don't listen is laughing causes pain
;D

[cambourne7]

good thinking Something to look forward to

Just tried to clean the table in the front room and almost lost and eye so going to stop sit down and not touch anything any more  :-[

[Robert_Brenchley]

I know exactly what you mean, I was the same when I had ME. I was taping bad films on the box every night and couldn't even concentrate long enough to watch them. I never found a real solution, but it passes.

[lorna]

Here's hoping you soon feel better. Take care.
Lorna

[saddad]

Hope the JA's I sent you arrive in the morning to cheer you up Louise.
;D

[tricia]

Poor you Louise - get well soon :-*

Tricia

[Hyacinth]

Sorry, Cam, only just read this, and no suggestions spring to mind atm - just all best wishes for an improvement day by day. :)

Lishka

[Grandma]

Hello Cam! I really feel for you! I'm asthmatic too - I don't have a chest infection but I have broken ribs! Not nice - but, you're right,  the bl**dy boredom is even worse than the pain. I'm just sitting - day in, day out - watching the dust mount up and crocheting Granny squares at a mile a minute. Bored, bored, BORED!!! Thank heavens for A4A!!! Always good for a smile and a bit of company. Hope you feel much better really soon. xxx