Sickened!

This week Jack and I went tandem in being ill. He with full-blown influenza, me with a BAD cold and laryngitis. It has NOT been fun, but we have learned a few things from our experience:

1. Don't ride in a car with someone who has a suspicious and persistent cough.
2. Don't hang around the house with someone who is visibly ill.
3. You can never have too many pillows and blankets.
4. Home remedies DO help: Recipe for a Hot Half Bath
If you have a blasting headache and fever, run a HOT bath (should turn legs red within a few seconds of sliding into the steamy water), have a cool compress standing by for the head, only cover up to your waste (to pull congestion down from your head/chest), stay until you have been sweating for several minutes (5-7) and then wrap-up and sweat more in order to KILL BUGS.
5. Frozen cherries in a 1 quart bag work great as a cold compress.
6. There isn't enough hot water in our 1 bedroom apartment for TWO people to take hot half baths (described above).
7. A good collection of books and movies makes ALL the difference when you are sick for several days.
8. Good friends that make grocery funs can come in VERY handy.
9. The internet is a great time-waster when you are recovering from a nasty illness.
10. Doctors aren't much help when it comes to the flu, a cold or laryngitis (they cost money and offer little useful help).