I mentioned the other day that the sniffles got me.... I heard it, I felt it, I new it was going to be a doozy... Everyone around me coughing beyond belief.. People at work sick for 3+ weeks and going strong. At least 30 people of 100 at our conference this week were sick and miserable... taking cold meds and feeling worse each day. Many on antibiotics but still miserable..... Hubby on his second cough week and finally getting over his coughing fits (he's not taking anything).... The sick bugs are around in full force.....
Standing in line at the store I was sneezed on, people shaking my hand that just sneezed in their own.. the germs were relentless and finally.... finally they got me.... My long run last weekend wore me out... over tired, and too much for my body to handle... the sick bug tried to get me while I was down...
BUT I WASN'T GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT!!! OH NO!!! I was not going to loose this battle!!
So what does this Vegmom do when the sickbugs are approaching..... Well, I'm gonna tell ya!
After being around the sickies, I would take an Airborne Tablet with water after getting home. I drank at least 2 glasses of Grapefruit Juice a day, and a swig of Aloe Juice once in a while. Each day that I felt sniffles coming on last week, I took a Garlic Capsule (dries me right up) and so everything stayed away.
Then this week, when I tried sleeping but my nose was plugged, throat and chest suddenly felt congested, I said "OH NO YOU DON'T" Each night I drank elderbery, rubbed garlic oil on my sinuses and lymph nodes, and a couple hours after I took some Oregano drops. I rubbed my eucalyptus stuff on my chest and then each morning I had Echinacea Goldenseal. I ran on the tread mill each morning, took a shower with cold and flu soap, took a garlic capsule before leaving the house, and then used the cold and sinus homeopathic drops through out the day if I felt the sniffles, cough, itchy ears etc.
Each night I slept comfortable (when I slept) and each day I functioned very well... No cough, no sore throat, no sinus drainage, NO headache... No Nuthin.... Every so often, I need a kleenex for blowing... but thats it!!!
3 days and This Sick Bug has been squashed!!
Yes it took a lot, and some would say "Wouldn't it be easier just take some cold medicine and be done?" Sure... then I'd end up like all the others around me,still sick 3 weeks later and miserable, hardly able to function because they are so drugged up, taking antibiotics to "prevent" infection, and getting other infections and stomaches from the antibiotics....we had 4 people with this same bug, so sick that they couldn't come to work today and were unable to function during the conference.... Some people that haven't slept in a week and yet they are taking lots of meds.
So, I may smell like a Garlic Clove, and my blood could probably be turned in to salad dressing at this point, but I'm feeling good! And the sick bugs are going DOWN!!!
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