(Particularly if she has two small children)
If you get a cold, she has a miniature pharmacy in her house. I was just planning on drinking lots of orange juice and tea and eating lots of garlic… I bought some cough syrup when I realized the coughing part was taking longer than normal to go away. To me, I am inconvenienced but not ill. It’s just a cold. To her, I was sick and she basically handed me all sorts of things it never would have occurred to me to take.
“This, you put it in water and it melts. It’s for decongestion. And this is for the runny nose. And if your throat hurts take some of this syrup. Then you can put some of this essential oil on your forehead and temples to help with the decongestion. Now get some rest.”
I thought I was going to die of a drug overdose. I’m stubborn and usually don’t take anything except for the occasional allergy pill, so having so many different drugs in my body might make me explode. But I think their medicine might be more natural… I’m not completely sure, though. All I know is “natural alternatives” don’t seem to be unusual.
They could just combine all these drugs into one pill… But that’d be too simple and too much like taking Tylenol Cold or something.
Whatever else can be said about this, I do seem to be getting better faster than expected. I’m just lucky I have someone who cares about me so much over here.
