Owly055
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I'm self medicating with hoppy beer for the "dread dog disease" or flu as it is more commonly known. None of the information on medicinal value of hops mentions flu or flu symptoms. I rarely catch the dread dog disease.... perhaps once every 10 years, as I don't have children, the worst carriers of it, like the rats that carried the fleas during the black death!
Symptoms started out with constant aches in various body parts, joints, muscles, etc, making me think my body was going to hell in a handbasket.......I'm only 60, I shouldn't feel like I'm 90. Soon upper sore throat hit and I realized what I had, then it dropped into the chest and I've had headaches, eye pain, fever, etc. Today I'm feeling much better, but with a cough and lots of congestion..... day 4. I plan to be back working by Tuesday and up to snuff by Wednesday with only a few residual symptoms. Today wasn't bad, but I felt it was a good idea to lay low...... It's cold and windy out there anyway. I worked Friday and Saturday, so taking Sunday and Monday off didn't seem outrageous.
I don't know if the beer has done me any good........but it makes me feel better at least for awhile. Everywhere I go, people clear a wide space around me. It kind of reminds me of a deer I once saw that had a long coil of barb wire wrapped around one foot..... she would try to join up with the herd, and they would all run from her....She'd run with them, and they'd run away from her.... She never seemed to realize they were running from her. It was pretty funny.... I feel like Typhoid Anne....it's pretty lonely around here with the yellow flag flying over my house.
I'd love to hear stories about how hoppy beer cured you of this or that.....It would support my program of self medication ;-)
H.W.
Symptoms started out with constant aches in various body parts, joints, muscles, etc, making me think my body was going to hell in a handbasket.......I'm only 60, I shouldn't feel like I'm 90. Soon upper sore throat hit and I realized what I had, then it dropped into the chest and I've had headaches, eye pain, fever, etc. Today I'm feeling much better, but with a cough and lots of congestion..... day 4. I plan to be back working by Tuesday and up to snuff by Wednesday with only a few residual symptoms. Today wasn't bad, but I felt it was a good idea to lay low...... It's cold and windy out there anyway. I worked Friday and Saturday, so taking Sunday and Monday off didn't seem outrageous.
I don't know if the beer has done me any good........but it makes me feel better at least for awhile. Everywhere I go, people clear a wide space around me. It kind of reminds me of a deer I once saw that had a long coil of barb wire wrapped around one foot..... she would try to join up with the herd, and they would all run from her....She'd run with them, and they'd run away from her.... She never seemed to realize they were running from her. It was pretty funny.... I feel like Typhoid Anne....it's pretty lonely around here with the yellow flag flying over my house.
I'd love to hear stories about how hoppy beer cured you of this or that.....It would support my program of self medication ;-)
H.W.