Certainly this wasn't the staph of life!!

Stay quite, keep rested and warm, let others do for you, and don't worry about staph like Thanksgiving -- you can staph the turkey later. There'll be more to be thankful for when you're all better.

My brother's favorite cure: take a quart of the cheapest, worst, most paint-peeling whiskey you can find. Dissolve a whole 12 oz. package of Hall's Mentho-Lyptus cough drops in it (note to the UK and elsewhere: if you don't have these, they are menthol and ecalyptus flavored and taste absolutely awful). Then sit back and tell yourself that if you don't get better you'll make yourself drink some of it.

Anything I can send that'll help?