Hunting and the Cold - Weather & Flu
All of you hunters have gotten your wish. The cold weather has kicked in and with that comes the flu season. I told all of you I was going to be punished. Well it happened this past Friday. Mark was off to hunt for the weekend and at about 11:00 a.m. the sneezing started and the sweating. I could NOT get sick. I had a list a mile long of things I wanted to get done.
I was sick in bed from Friday night until Sunday. I did nothing all weekend but sleep, eat soup, drink tea and sleep. I am the biggest baby when it comes to being sick. I like to be spoiled and for Mark to make sure I am covered up, make my tea, bring me soup, get me a kleenex, turn on a good movie. All the things a 5 year old needs.
While I lay there in my pitty party, Mark was enjoying himself hunting. You think he would’ve ask if I wanted him to come home. Yes, I actually just said that. I was having a “I don’t know what I want moment”. I don’t have them very often but when I do, I am just a ……. )(@#*$)*@#$.
Today is Wednesday and I am still fighting this darn cold. I use to go to the doctor for everything and over the past 2 years I swore I would never go to one again. I turned from using antibiotics on a regularly basis to natural remedies.
So I would like to ask all of you the following:
What is your best remedy for the common cold?
With this cold weather, we want to keep all of our hunter’s healthly.
November 7th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Colds are reaching us all. We were exposed by the grandchildren this past week. I usually increase my vitamin C intake for a short while and drink warm fluids. It seems to shorten the time I have to deal with the worst symptoms.
November 7th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Thanks CD. Hopefully we will get lost of responses here and put together everyone’s favorites.
Hope you all start to feeling better and I hope my Mark doesn’t get it. He probably will though, my germs and kleenex are everywhere around the house.
November 7th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Homemade chicken soup, lots of fluids and rest.
I’m prone to bronchitis, so I hate colds. I’ve found the best thing I can do to combat one is get lots of rest.
November 7th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
There is nothing like homemade chicken soup.
November 11th, 2007 at 10:54 am
I’ve been trying to hunt with a bad cough for the last three days and have been getting by on Dayquil. Hope you feel better soon.
November 11th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Thanks Matt and I hope you feel better as weel. As of today my husband still hasn’t gotten it so hopefully he won’t.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:33 am
A nice cup of hot cinnamon tea or hot spiced cider with a stiff shot of Presineaite Brandy. Drink this before bed it will warm you up and you will sleep like a baby. Just stop at one shot. Ask Mark it will kick back. Judy
November 12th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Judy is that what Mark and Frank were drinking on my first visit to the River?
You might have to make Mark one of those this week.
November 12th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
1) Prevention - especially as I get older. I get a flu shot every year now, and I try to get enough sleep. I know it only inoculates you against the flu, but after getting the shot last year, I had very few colds.
2) Good diet. Lots of wild game that’s eaten honest-to-god natural food, not this nasty factory-farmed junk.
3) Once I feel a cold coming on, I take an herbal supplement, goldenseal. Worth the money - won’t kill the cold, but really minimizes it.
4) Red wine. It’s never worked for me, but my relatives swear by it, and, what the hell, it’s wine.
5) Turner Classic Movies. Once I’m sick, I like to snuggle up with a blanket and some tea and watch old Carey Grant movies. Very comforting.
November 12th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
I have never heard of goldenseal. I will have to give that a try. I normally do chicken soup, zinc tabs and the Vitamin C. I will have to add the brandy, a glass of red wine and watch movies. Sounds nice and relaxing. Which is probably what I need.
Thanks!