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[lnr]

Too little sleep due to coughing fits every 3.5 hours or so last night.

Quick dash round town in the morning, to buy a couple of things I needed from Boots (like cough medicine!) and exchange some Euros with someone for some money I can actually spend here. Then back on the bus home and immediately out again (without even getting off the bus) to Addies with RJK.

Arrived in plenty of time for 2pm appointment, and found a sandwich and so on for lunch since I'd had neither that nor breakfast. RJK saw the consultant fairly soon, although he seemed to be consulting for an awfully long time. They decided they wanted to admit him overnight and try fit him into tomorrow's surgery schedule. Why it's so hard to fit him in given they knew they were planning to do it a week ago I don't know. If they can't fit him in tomorrow they're hoping to do it Thursday anyway. The rest of the afternoon was spent sitting waiting for a bed on a ward. They finally found a bed-space around 5:30, though it didn't actually have a bed in it yet they promised it would in time for bedtime. We popped back downstairs and had a BK for dinner on the concourse (what a scary little shopping centre that is!) and then I left him there with his book and came home on the bus shattered. Sounds like his foot is going to be pretty painful for quite a bit after the operation though. Not nice.

Going singing with Jan again this evening, though will have to cycle to Fen Dittonish in order to do so. Planning to stop for a drink in the pub on the way home which will be nice. I suspect I'm going to feel rather lonely overnight.

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[(Anonymous)]

take one large onion and a pound of runny honey, chop the onion into chucks and coat with honey, place in fridge over night. Then strain the following morning, what you have is a great cough mix, which also helps with pain and fights infection. Also tastes pretty good.

[lnr]

Most of the cough medicines in the shops which you can just pick up and buy are basically mostly honey and sugar, and if they work it's obvious that this would too for the same reason. I prefer to use something with actual active ingredients rather than just sugar though if I'm going to bother at all. The lozenges I got from Boots seem to work very well.

BTW who are you?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

You need to ask for the ingredient-ful ones these days; they all need a pharmacist to give them to you, afaik. Not sure if this is a good or a bad thing.

[lnr]

Yeah, I did, and got lozenges for daytime and drowzy-version syrup for the nighttime, both with ingredients :-) The lozenges are great as I say, I shall report on the syrup (benylin original for dry coughs) in the morning.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

I was scarfing that same syrup a month or so ago when I had 'weird virus'. It caused me to fall asleep lying on the landing snuggling the cat. I was headed towards a nap, but the cat looked so inviting....