Sick days

I miss the days as a child when being sick was not necessarily bad, but it was sometimes even a good thing. It meant you could skip school and stay home watching movies or reading in bed and eating soups mom made.

Now, as an adult, being sick is the exact opposite of a good thing and I dread the days of classes or work I have to miss. Two weeks before finals week this term I got a horrible body flu with a fever that literally took every inch of my bodies energy and drained it. It seemed like the universe was almost laughing at all the things I needed to accomplish that week and made it impossible for me to do anything but stay in bed. As an adult now, I am equip with the knowledge of how to get myself better and back to my healthy self. I was out with this sickness for about a week and got better just in time to catch up before finals.

After being so sick I thought I would share some of my go-to recovery tools:

• Lemon water with cayenne pepper (either cold or hot as a tea) 
• Echinacea goldednseal
• Ginger tea (soak organic ginger root in  boiling water)
• Throat coat tea
• Lots of water
• Lots of vitamin C