Thanks. I went back to work yesterday, but was so light-headed and weak, I decided to stay home again today. I slept until 2 PM, and am feeling very good now.
The benefit of sleep is underrated in illness, especially by people like me who need to be ‘doing something’ with spare time. I’ve learned a lesson; and just lying in bed halfway- listening to weird talk radio for days on end can be productive :-)
-JT
Oh, rest is essential to good health. It’s underrated in America which is a problem.
Being sick is never fun, & it sounds like you were in misery! I’m glad you’re feeling better.
Did you ever read the James Herriot books...All Creatures Great & Small, All Things Bright & Beautiful, etc...? There was one story that has stuck with me over the years. Herriot was a vet in the Yorkshire Dales before WWII. He was called out to a farm & while treating one animal noticed another sheep in distress. When he finished with the first, he asked the farmer if he wanted him to look at the other one. The farmer said no, he couldn’t afford it & that creature would have to ‘take its chances’. The farmer was called away for a moment, & rather than leave it in agony Herriot decided to euthanize it & gave it a dose of whatever, & left the farm. Some time later he was called back to the same farm & after treating the animal he asked the farmer what had happened to that sheep. The farmer replied that it was the strangest thing, the sheep was asleep for three days & then woke up just fine! Sleep is HEALING, so when you’re sick the best medicine is just getting rest - although you obviously needed the antibiotics, too! :-)
We’ve been traveling, so I’ve been missing the cooking threads. The only thing I’d have to add on cooking squash would be my mother’s method of cooking the pattypan squash (that look like a clamshell). It’s not good for diets, as you slice the squash into chunks, brown in butter, add salt & pepper & then heavy cream. Yum!