The mangy cats growling in their cages.

[reddragdiva]

Coughing up yellow slime, dammit. Don't expect me to be out at B-Movie tonight. Or indeed all weekend. Two damn weeks off sick. I'll be having a quiet time communing with the new laptop and trying to rest.

I spent yesterday morning doing the poster for My Own Private September. The article needs two more paragraphs — I haven't actually seen the film, so if anyone can point out other important subplots to take off please do. It also needs more cowbell in general.

I am spending the day in bed with my lovely laptop and Liz next to me. Browser, IRC, VLC, headphones and my music collection. Neo has flooped on my chest as well.

Update: Just back from doctor with a week's high dose amoxycillin. Now to do nothing.

Comments

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

Yellow slime, ewww. I'm there though. The cold I had a couple of weeks ago seemed to clear up fine, but it sure left a lot of crud on my chest that needed to come up. It's still mucking my asthama about, woke up really wheezy yesterday. What is the best thing for clearing it off? I've heard various things but nothing seemed particularly effective. Everything from sudafed to old fashioned chest sweets.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Sniff frankincense essential oil. Fancy trying herbal remedies? Hyssop and licorice tea - brew tea from the hyssop leaves, boil the licorice root for 10 minutes, mix together and drink. You can add peppermint for its relaxing properties. Coltsfoot tea is good for opening the airways.

If you have problems getting the herbs, try cumin seed and aniseed (not star anise), boil together for 10 minutes, strain and drink.

You can get licorice and thyme expectorant cough syrup from Holland & Barratt; I can tell you from personal experience that it really does work. And I can also recommend Rocket Tea - a handful of yarrow, a handful of elderflower, a heaped teaspoon of dried ginger and a dash of lemon, brew for 5 minutes then down it. Really clears the passages, I can tell you! There are various herbalists you can buy the herbs from; there's a medical herbalist in St.Albans by the name of Jill who has a market stall on Wednesdays and Saturdays where she sells dried herbs and remedies.

These remedies all came from yellowrocket who trained as a medical herbalist herself. She's married to cymrys, my ex-husband, and she's been treating his chest infections and asthma attacks for years now. She's the person I turn to when conventional medicine just isn't doing the trick.

[yellowrocket.livejournal.com]

(grins, salutes)
Though to be strictly accurate, I did half my training and then moved house, so quite a bit is experience based rather than BSc stuff...

A handful of the dried herbs in the tea is probably a bit much - it's more like a couple of teaspoons.

Jill is Jill Wright, and you'll find the NIMH (no, not as in The Rats of!)has a list of herbalists in the UK on their website :-)

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

Eeew. Yellow slime is almost as bad as green gunge.

Well get well soon, and maybe see you at the next one.

[flavius-m.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. Do get better soon, will you:P

Did you ever send me the link for that camera? was looking for it in my email and there was nothing there....

[redcountess]

David's a bit out of it, so I've just searched Maplin, and they appear only to have B stock of it left: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?criteria=A55FC&DOY=10m3. David also apologises for not sending the link to you as promised!

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Coughing up yellow slime, dammit.

Call yourself a goth?! You should be coughing-up black slime, or possibly purple Slime-With-Bats(TM). ;)

Sounds really rough...get well soon!

Slime-Lite

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Save it up and make interesting little sculptures.

Sorry to hear you won't be at B-Movie.

Re: Slime-Lite

[redcountess]

No, that's ear wax ;-)

Re: Slime-Lite

[reddragdiva]

I am particularly annoyed as everyone is likely to be there!

[ruthi.livejournal.com]

Just watch My Own Private Idaho, if you're not going dancing.

[unagothae.livejournal.com]

Get better already! You've been sick 4 EVER!!!

Sheesh.

(Being nice never works, so I try to be commanding with those germs and tell them to go the fuck away already.)

Have some more nekkid dancing to entertain you while you wait for the drugs to do the commanding for you.

yellow slime

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Have you tried to communicate with it?

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

Yellow is much too cheerful a color. It doesn't suit you. Stop that.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

How come I never seem to find a quack willing to write scripts for what's actually bothering me? I go in for my knee, and I get allergy meds. I go in for my allergies, I get cholestorol meds.

oh, and quit whining unless you're coughing up so much that you have to keep a bucket handy to spit it into. Wimp.

[gths.livejournal.com]

I dunno, the yellow slime is kind of good, it means the body is winning.

[themadcatlady.livejournal.com]

Awww. I hope you´re feeling a bit better by now.

If it´s any consolation at all, I´m at WORK right now.

There. I´m sure that made you feel much better. ;)