BS: The Infection From Hell

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Dec 08 - 03:42 PM

By rights he should have been in San Diego with the rest of the Marines.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: paula t
Date: 01 Dec 08 - 04:29 PM

I always find that a few hefty mugs of hot blackcurrant(Ribena type squash) with whiskey usually helps. Soothes the throat and makes you forget you are ill ......
Or...
Hot rum and Horlicks.Probably does no good at all but it cheers you up!

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: PoppaGator
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 04:57 AM

If lobsters are too disgusting, just boil up a sack of their little cousins, the crawfish.

Be sure to throw plenty of whole garlic cloves and little round potatoes into the pot, and of course a healthy dose of hot sauce (cayenne pepper).

When the mudbugs are fully cooked, dump in a few pounds of frozen corn-on-the-cob to bring the temperature down quickly. Once the heat-exchange has stabilized, the corn will be nicely done ~ crisp, not boiled down to a soggy mess (which is what happens if you include the corn too early, along with the garlic and taters).

Of course, this kind of crawfish boil is feasible only in season (springtime) and ideally only is south Louisiana. I sure hope you're over your illness by then!

For now, the garlic and cayenne, without shellfish, will have to suffice.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 05:03 AM

I am now on doxycyclin... disgusting nausea and horrid stomach pain, as if I am not uncomfortable enough. Learning how to use an inhaler. Don't think I am doing it right. Infection now in my ears.

The worst bit about this thing is I have missed 2 sing around sessions and about to miss another this week. It SUCKS!

Folk withdrawal on top of everything else.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 06:51 AM

So Poppa.......Are you a traditionalist who sucks the head? Never did it myself but to each his own............But that's really disgusting.................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 07:03 AM

Yeah Tam, the ear part is interesting. My left ear is blocked so I hear only out of the right. This means that noise from my left registers on the right. Very confusing.

Spaw and Poppa - I hate you. I wish morning sickness on both of you.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 07:54 AM

everyhting sounds like it is coming at me tin cans

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: ranger1
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 09:32 AM

Ick! Get well soon!

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 10:30 AM

wazzat? say again please?

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 11:03 AM

Doctor says bacterial not strep. Lots of meds; lots of rest; lots of infection.

Hey Spaw and Amos - come on over and let me cough on you.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Amos
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 11:32 AM

Sure thing, Sins--start saving up for the ticket. There's no such thing as a free coughee, ya know.

Or you could just hunt down that homeless guy and spit into his mouth.



A

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: kendall
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 11:39 AM

Geez, I feel like a malingerer listening to Sinsull!
I got the word from the witch doctor today, type 2

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 11:49 AM

That's good news Kendall. Now go take Seamus for a walk.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 12:07 PM

Yeah Kendall.......And while you're out, why not get those lobsters on the FedEx truck?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 12:36 PM

They've quit on the lobsters. Too expensive. They're marketing Weimaraner steaks instead now. Very tasty and dirt cheap!

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Becca72
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 01:06 PM

Tam, re the inhaler:

Exhale as much as you possibly can. While you are inhaling (through your mouth, obviously) hit the trigger...hold your breath a couple seconds. If you are supposed to take "two puffs" do them one at a time just as above.


Becca72,
Asthmatic since '74. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 01:58 PM

My left ear is blocked so I hear only out of the right. This means that noise from my left registers on the right. Very confusing.

Hey Sinsull I'm over here, behind you, no on your left... no the other left.

snerk

Thanks Becca72, Guess I am doing it correct then.   Thing is, some of the mist ends up on my tongue... nasty.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Becca72
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 02:22 PM

Sometimes it will, unfortunately...tastes like hell, don't it? :-) You can try to angle the mouthpiece up a bit to minimize that.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 05:46 PM

I have suddenly acquired a gluey ear... it was fine until I got to choir practice when suddenly it gummed up and I couldn't hear.

It wasn't so bad, I sit on the end with my deaf ear outwards, but it was the intermittent tinnitus that rang in Bb when I was trying to sing in G... not good.

Oddly enough, it cleared as soon as I left rehearsal!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 05:47 PM

correction:
Do not eat bowels of chicken soup. Try a bowl of Chicken noodle instead.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: gnu
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 06:12 PM

Youse are sick.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 06:24 PM

If you want, you can direct the inhaler via a toilet paper roll (the core, not the whole thing). Exhale as completely as possible, put one end of the roll in your mouth and put the inhaler in the other end. Trigger the inhaler (push down on the ones I have) and at the same time inhale for a count of 6 done at medium speed. Hold your breath for another 6 count, and exhale for a 6 count.

You might also be able to get a cardboard tube from the doctor.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: kendall
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 08:23 PM

Spaw, the shipping would cost more than the lobsters. Come to Maine and I will treat you to a Lobster feed.

Did I ever give you my Lazy man's lobster recipe?

Take half a dozen eggs, break them into a skillet.
Put a Lobster in the skillet among the eggs.
Put skillet on the stove,cover it, turn the heat up,
Lobster scrambles the eggs.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 09:46 PM

Kendall, you come out here to Idaho and I'll treat YOU to a genuine freshwater lobster feed. Not many people know that there is a species of freshwater lobster indigenous to Idaho and specifically to the Snake River. These lobsters (Homarus Americanus Idahoensis) have a somewhat sweeter taste than those found in the Atlantic which is probably due to the use of sugar beet residue as "green fertilizer" on Idaho farms and the subsequent runoff into the lobster-containing streams, rivers, and lakes. They have never been commercially fished, primarily because of the overwhelming popularity of saltwater lobster.

But I can tell you, an Idaho lobster bake with these lobsters, corn on the cob, fresh butter, some Salmon River oysters and clams, and all washed down with Moose Drool or Midnight Satin beer -- dang, THAT'S some fine eatin'!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 06:02 AM

God Rapaire You make my mouth water.

Reminds me of annual family 4th of July fish fry on the Chickahominy River. Crabs, flounder, trout, bass and grilled hotdogs and hamburgers and KFC chicken for the picky eaters. My Aunt Myrt or was it Uncle Perk used to make the best hushpuppies. Can't get cornmeal here in the UK.

I need some corn bread. Therapeutic corn bread. Sounds like a good name for a band.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 06:20 AM

If you want cornbread.......TRY THIS THREAD!

Also check the linked threads at the top of it. At Mudcat, only music edges out food as the favored subject.....barely.


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 08:10 AM

HEY! REMEMBER ME???? I'm SICK!

The codeine was a huge disappointment but I only took a teaspoonful/ Then again they only gave nme two ounces. This is the same doctor who only gave me two Ambien. She must think I am a potential addict.

Meantime - a used toilet paper roll in your mouth????GAG!

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: kendall
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 08:18 AM

Sorry about the thread drift. I thought a little humor might help, but I see that pity is more apt to. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 08:36 AM

Ambien isn't addictive; it's on the "proscribed" list mostly because the FDA and DEA can't explain why it works. Have you considered that your doctor's is TOO conservative in treatment?

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 08:36 AM

Too right about the toilet roll... e choli accident waiting to happen.

Sorry you are getting no relief Sinsull. What is it about the stinginess of doctors these days. Remember all the free pharmaceuticals they used to dispense? I think they sell them on ebay now.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 09:06 AM

Old Ambien was addictive and I would have loved to have a year's supply - psychedelic dreams and 10 hours deep sleep. Wonderful stuff.

F***in' infection is in my ear and it HURTS!
Thank you Kendall. Pity and a little cheese for my whine would be nice.
M

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Becca72
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 10:23 AM

You should go to my doctor....I'm constantly turning DOWN prescriptions for various things

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 10:37 AM

Cheese?   You want cheese? Karen and I are dieting and for some unknown reason used almost all of the the leftover turkey on faux Tex-Mex style recipes. The gawdamn Chimi-changas were excellent but all of it was filled with refried beans and the gas..............

Cheese? I've been cutting it for days..........

AS far as sympathy goes.......Out of every illness I've ever had, the worst pain was prior to back surgery but that was only slightly worse than a series of ear infections I had in my 20's. Seriously, I never would wish that on anyone. Okay? All better now? Where are the lobsters?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 02:24 PM

Oh my, Mary! That is one of the nastiest pains know to humankind. I hope you can get it cleared up reeeeal soon.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 03:42 PM

Thank you, gnu.

Becca? How about some Ambien?

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Becca72
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 04:07 PM

Going on 12/15 for my annual..you want I should fake sick? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 04:13 PM

Sure.....Get her some serious drugs. I'd suggest the 4mg size Dilaudid. On your way home, ship me the lobtsers.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 04:27 PM

Mary, stick your ear on a heating pad.

And while I'm here, I have to ask: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING WITH YOUR TOILET ROLLS?!!??

(Seriously, you're supposed to use the tissue on your ass, not stick the cardboard roll in there! E. coli doesn't do 'dry'.)

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 04:57 PM

Yeah, I know. I thought that nobody...well, you know...but I guess I was wrong.

It really IS a good way of directing an inhalant, sort of a legal bong. But not for people who use them...well....

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 05:05 PM

Ya can't ever really know people, can you Rap?

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Barry Finn
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 05:16 PM

Mary, I'm telling you, listen to the lobster, hear what it's got to say.
Put your ear right up close to it's little lips & listen to it say "EAT ME"! Then go throw the little bugger in the scalding water after it nips your nose. You may not like eating them but you'll surely like cooking them.
BTW, after it nips your nose your won't mind the pain in the ear.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: ranger1
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 05:35 PM

Right, on our way out the door with oodles of home-made chicken soup. Both jacqui and Jason decided to make chicken soup for you, Mary. I'm just the delivery person.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 06:22 PM

Leave it on the step and ring the doorbell. I like Mother Mary, but no sense in catching anything, right?

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 08:01 PM

I gratefully accepted the soup donations without offering anything in the line of hugs and kisses.
Yum. Maybe I will get sick more often.
Thank you guys.

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Barry Finn
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 11:10 PM

MARY!!!!
Don't eat the chicken soup, it'll past through you like the wind over the ocean. If you can't do lobster try the next best thing, eat stewed bats. I know they're dying off everywhere but if you act fast you'll be able to trap a couple. You put them in a stew, just like an Irish stew but instead of rat meat you use bat meat. They're harded to trap than rats & smarter too so you can't just set out some cheese & put it on one of those spring things that breaks their necks. You got to set up a misqutos fly slam. You get about 2 dozen on the local buzzards & hang them by gluing them in a ball to the end of a light line of thin gauge wire, use lots of glue & set it up at dusk. When the bat striks the ball og glued misquotes & is stunned because it gets stopped in mid air you slam it with a bat. This is called the bat act. Well, dewing the thing drop it in the stew & there you go. Boil for 3 hrs & eat hot.
Best of luck, hope your ears have stopped ringing
Barry

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 11:27 PM

Why not just boil down a possum? Ya' know, they're America's other yellow meat plus they have an ospenis (bony peter) so they come with their own toothpick! Cleigh will hate you for it but it has the same chance as the bats do..............

BTW, the lobsters can nip at my balls for all I care. Just send the damn things.............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 11:49 PM

Sins - have you considered death as a strong alternative ...... rather that than the bat stew!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: Amos
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 11:56 PM

IF you'll [promise to take a home video of live Maine lobsters nipping your scrawy balls, Spaw, I'll pay the damn freight myself. I want a copy though , with YouTube rights and all...


And I am sure it will cure anything the viriii can throw at Mary.



A

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 04:31 AM

Now ain't this something..........I finally get a bite, so to speak, and the guy lives at the opposite end of the opposite coast............................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 07:48 AM

HMMMMM Catspaw acting out the Old She-Crab. That might be worth the cost of shipping lobsters or just flying out with a bushel of them.
Who's in?