3/16/2010

When the alarm went off this morning, I awoke with a very sore throat and that feeling of a full head.  These are normally the precursors to my annual spring cold.  Year in, year out, I seem to get this cold and it inevitably ends in my having to take an antibiotic and spending three or four days in bed.

This year I decided to try some of the wacky shit I have been reading in order to see how it compared to taking antibiotics and feeling like shit for a week... Before i go on, let me say for the umteenth time:  I am not a doctor or a nutritionist, no did I play one on TV.  Viral and bacterial infections are different, if your doctor thinks it is prudent for you to take an antibiotic, take it!  He or she has insurance and I don't!

I years past I have gotten "my spring cold" and it usually settles in my sinuses, and I end up going to the doctor and getting a prescription for the antibiotic dejour.  A week later i feel better.

This time i drank water, chicken stock (Organic, free......you get it) with Tabasco sauce, gargled with raw apple cider vinegar, several times (swallowing each time... No jokes.. it is too easy) and slept as much as possible.  Know what?  I feel fucking great!  I heading to bed with a full day of work planned for tomorrow.

Remember, I am a very big skeptic, the fact that any of this shit works amazes me as much as it does you. 

The day I wake up and find that I have gained 20 pounds, I promise that i will post it here.  I promised you at the beginning of this experiment that I would post each and every relevant component, and I will.

For now: woke up sick, feel great now; heading to bed... lot's to do tomorrow.

Thank you for reading!
Bald Bill