Sick Tip of the Day
If you feel the first signs of getting sick, especially those nasty viral bugs like the cold, flu, etc., follow these steps to insure that your illness will be as short-lived as possible.
- First, begin by drinking as much water as you can stomach. And maybe even a little more. If you are not peeing constantly, you're not drinking enough! Oh, and if there's even a LITTLE color, you're not drinking enough!
- Second, drink a tall glass of orange juice at every meal. The vitamin C and acidity will help.
- Third, take 4 echinacea tablets per day.
- Fourth, take 3 "Airborne" dissolving tablets per day. (Each tablet contains, among other things, 1,600% of your RDA of vitamin C!)
- Fifth, take a hot bath.
- Finally, enjoy whatever foods you are craving. Since your body is fighting something, it needs what it's craving. And I swear that sugary foods help give your cells the energy they need!
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I also use the color-free-pee test as verification that I'm fully hydrated...
I've only been sick twice in the last four years.
I got a sore throat 4 days before my wedding, which turned the next day into a runny nose. A combined slurry of Gatorade, Cold-Eeze, Vitamin B, Aspirin, and Zinc lozenges cleared it up by the day before my wedding.
Vitamin B is also fantastic for not getting stressed under pressure. Seriously. But it will make your pee bright yellow. Almost neon. I kid you not.
It also gives you steady nerves, for those of you who cant hold your hand up without it shaking all over the place.
Or as the Eels sang:
Laying in bed tonight i was thinking
And listening to all the dogs
And the sirens and the shots
And how a careful man tries
To dodge the bullets
While a happy man takes a walk
And maybe it's time to live