Today I have a sick teenager at home. Though it is in my job description to be the resident Florence Nightingale, I am always struck but how the sick patient in question relies on my old wives tale style of nursing rather than on her father’s medical training. It never fails.
Sicko: Mom, I don’t feel so good.
Me: Hm… you better have your father check you.
Sicko: Why?
Me: Seriously, you have to ask??
Sicko: But you’re the mom.
Me: Ok, let me see…
(takes temp, feels for clamminess, etc.)
Me: I can make you a concoction of milk, onion juice, ginger and cinnamon which may help.
Sicko: I guess I’ll have dad check me out…
Works every time. Ironically, so does the concoction. Unfortunately, it was something my grandmother made for pain, and she has no recipe for it. Which when you think about the ingredients, I’m kind of relieved.
Guess I will stick with ibuprofen, then 😉
January 28th, 2013 at 9:34 AM
concoction of milk, onion juice, ginger and cinnamon
Check a Thai cookbook, I’ll bet it’s in there. The milk and cinnamon is a tip off.
January 28th, 2013 at 11:44 AM
I thought of that, but they use coconut milk. My gran uses goat milk.
*barfs*
January 28th, 2013 at 10:17 AM
A mixture of used motor oil, sardines, turpentine, live red ants (black ones don’t work, and taste like licorice), pet dander, shredded 1040-ez forms, and a blackened onion (for flavor) will usually cure whatever ails them. Before the blender is done, in most cases.
January 28th, 2013 at 11:46 AM
Before the sardines are added, I hope!
January 28th, 2013 at 12:47 PM
Nope, sardines are a key ingredient. More fish-scales per ounce than a tube of lipstick!
January 28th, 2013 at 12:50 PM
Ick 😉
January 28th, 2013 at 11:11 AM
Mom’s will always be mom’s no matter what. and do not follow what RabidAlien says no telling what you’ll end up. 🙂
January 28th, 2013 at 11:46 AM
Spoken as a wise woman 😉
January 28th, 2013 at 12:46 PM
Hey!
January 28th, 2013 at 12:49 PM
Wha….??
January 28th, 2013 at 3:54 PM
How about them Cowboys….Oh wait umm maybe I should have picked another team.
January 28th, 2013 at 4:14 PM
Yes, you should have…. 😛
January 28th, 2013 at 11:15 AM
I hope everyone is well soon! In other matters, Darth Vader’s Diary: http://cheeseburgerbrown.com/Darth_Vader/ANH01.html
January 28th, 2013 at 11:47 AM
From the sounds of Zelda coming from the living room, I would guess tomorrow she goes back to school 😉
January 28th, 2013 at 12:24 PM
Glad it isn’t serious.
January 28th, 2013 at 12:29 PM
Thanks, and guess what?? You are my 7,000 comment 😀
January 28th, 2013 at 1:10 PM
Dammit! (7002)
January 28th, 2013 at 1:13 PM
HAHAHAHA!!!
January 28th, 2013 at 5:23 PM
I’m crossing my fingers. I had a whopper of a cold in Seattle and the hub was sick for a few days at the end of December but despite being around tons of sick people at work, we are both still okay this winter… Seems like every week we have at least one person out sick for at least one day. At least they are staying home once they realize they are sick. Unfortunately, that usually seems to be a day *after* they are contagious… 🙂
January 28th, 2013 at 5:33 PM
Murphy’s Law at work, literally 😉
January 28th, 2013 at 10:30 PM
Usually those old cures also had a dollop of laudanum in them, which didn’t really fix a darn thing, they just made you feel a bit less like dying.
So no wonder they had odd ingredients like ginger, cat pee, hair tonic, motor oil. You still felt less like dying.
January 29th, 2013 at 8:00 AM
Ah, the good ol’ days… 😉