what do you do when ill ? do you feel like wearing socks and/or some kind of footwear or you keep 'em bare ? im on the brink of the usual seasonal illness with cold, sore throat and some fever and felt like putting socks on for the first time in years and please note that we still live in day temperatures hitting steadily the unusually high top limit of 20-22 C°. (that's quite weird)
The next wedding or funeral I attend I MAY wear socks, but that depends on who's involved. Otherwise...socks? NEVER!
I use my self-healing powers, telling myself "I don't want this!" - it may sound weird, but this auto-suggestion works in helping the healing process. In addition to that, I drink herbal teas, sweetened with honey, occasionally a spoonful of pure honey, to soothe the throat, wear a scarf to keep my throat warm, inhale mint oil... the usual stuff, really. In case of fever, I take the time to sweat it out, stay in bed for a day or two. And during all that time, my feet stay bare. Wiggling bare toes, currently also enjoying some mild air (not quite as warm as in Italy, but still in the mid 60s Fahrenheit/around 17°C), ~*Ganesha*~
im rather inclined to believing that, too bad it does not work much for me. persuaded by older hippies im trying honey and propolis to avoid the usual outcome of my colds, which is: the infection slips down, down into my lungs and there goes off like a frag, bringing high fever and destruction. this usually results in a half dead myself lying down in a circle of spent paper towels. last year it went so wrong i started spitting blood which resulted in an X-tra x-ray party. i couldn't find pure propolis but just an alcohol tincture of propolis, mint and thyme oils . yesterday the high proof spray took the wrong way causing a spasm reaction to my epiglottis which resulted in a minute of sealed lungs ->(no_breath :ack2 , a rather ludicrous step backwards in the path towards healing. i wasn't even scared , all i kept thinking was: now even ventolin cant do a fucking bit of difference, am i supposed to attempt an improvised tracheotomy with this pencil? choking, coughing and laughing at the same time. 'twas a hoot, man. btw im still bf in daylight , but night and dark make me feel not very comfy without some rag on my feet, in the middle of an unreasonably weird hot fall when chrysanthemum blooms together with chili peppers plants. almost 24 C° yesterday. children were asking for iced drinks instead of sweet treats last night. sheez.
Ouch! Now, that is more than just a cold you're suffering from! I hope you're getting better soon... Indeed, the seasons are getting mixed up. With the somewhat chilly and too-wet summer, cold and flu viruses bloomed like hell and people were coughing and sniffling everywhere in August - we can even trace that by the figures at work, when the number of people absent due to illness went up uncharactersitcally. And couging and sneezing has become the standard soundtrack at work all around the office, too, since then. While I'm lucky, not having had more than a short outbreak of bronchitis, when I had to take some medication to loosen the goo from my clogged-up bronchiae last August, my head cold is on come-and-go status since then, beginning to ge a bit stronger just yesterday, when I had a wonderful barefoot day off (All's Hallows), spending a lot off time outdoors, enjoying the sun, having my bare feet play in a mud puddle, feeling soft grass and cool, damp soil, too (details can be read, as usual, in my barefoot diary at http://www.barefoot-spring.net/barefoot/diary3.html ). I guess that I got an extra portion of germs and viruses on Halloween day, since I had to work, used public transport and was - again - surrounded by coughing and sniffling people. I still manage to be barefoot as much as possible, even though working at the office sometimes requires me to cover my feet for those stupid social reasons - such as today, when a meeting with one of those people working for our client coming by makes me having to appear more "normal". Again, I hope you get well, soon. Wiggling bare toes, ~*Ganesha*~
