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January 03, 2006
lung fertilizer
what do fuzzy deer antlers, black ants, dried seahorses and pigs feet have in common? they can all be found (in whole) at your local pharmacy! and they're in pretty little gift boxes, for you convenience, to save you the trouble of having to find that perfect box! funny how most of the things listed above are to be consumed in white wine (remember the Lizard Elixer?) so it leads me to believe maybe it's the wine that clinically treats your memory so you forget your symptoms exist? .. just a western biased hunch of sarchasm.
but we did walk out of the pharmacist with quite the bag of goodies. (fortunately, nothing with tails or eyelids) Britt and I have been gagging over this cough and chest infection for the past couple weeks and it's not really getting worse, just more annoying as the days pass. especially since our South China vacation is right around the corner. nobody likes to travel sick, and nobody likes sick travelers, so we must get well soon. we have 2 boxes of Thee Nastiest Tea Ever (surely, that's what it translates into) it's black and tastes like that liquid stuff you fertilize your houseplants with. a box of caplets (the most familiar looking medicine in the bag) to be taken three times daily before meals. and, i'm sportin' a cupcake right now (my term for the embarrassingly painful yearly fever blister) which they gave me a tube of ointment and also some little microscopic brown pellets I can crush into powder and add sesame oil and make my own ointment (more effective) -- the girl who helped us buy these things seems to know quite a bit about medicine, so i'm happy to know we're on the road to recovery... if we can get past the taste of it all.
Posted by daiseykat at January 3, 2006 09:28 PM
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ok. the mere fact that the mix-it-yourself pellets BURNS so bad makes me think it's working. and the tea, well, britt was a good boy and drank all of his. I'm still gagging over mine with a big puffy burning brown lip. this is weird.
Posted by: daisey at January 3, 2006 10:01 PM