Anyway

The Moose Fever that befell what seems to be half the North­ern­Voice attendees (although to be fair, lots of oth­er people I know in Van­couver are down with the flu as well, it seems par­tic­u­larly vir­u­lent this year) is slowly loosen­ing its grip. It’s more than a little dis­con­cert­ing when you go through the list of symp­toms in the BC Health Guide and real­ize you have all of them, plus a few more (what’s with the tin­nit­us?). So now, the res­ol­u­tions for next time, aka the flu sur­viv­al kit:

• get the flu shot; even if it does­n’t always work, it prob­ably does often enough to be worthwhile
• make sure the medi­cine cup­board always has the basics: ibupro­fen, phlegm loosen­er (pure Guaifen­es­in works best for me), decon­gest­ant (pseudoep­hedrine for when the cough no longer brings up phlegm but the ears are still plugged and I have a sinus head­ache), cough sup­press­ant, acetaminophen/paracetamol (in case the fever responds bet­ter to that than with ibuprofen)
• herb­al teas help a lot: ginger and lem­on, cam­o­mile, mint
• get lots of tissues
• keep a few days worth of easy-to-pre­pare food around. Cook­ing from scratch is nice, but not when you can­’t stand up for very long.

Now all I have to do is remem­ber to read this list before the next flu sea­son starts!