In which our hero writes a #csbp novella on head colds and soup:
In which our hero writes a #csbp novella on head colds and soup:
So, my head cold that had hung around for a while decided to get notably worse yesterday and I have been feeling, as Emily Blunt so notably states in The Devil wears Prada, like death warmed up. I have mostly not wanted to eat, even though I needed to if only because taking meds, and cough drops have sugar in them, etc. Also, sometimes it turns out you feel better if you eat.
So (note use of classic transition phrase "so"), I have basically eaten nothing but Tom Yum yesterday and today. I have no idea why my stomach is ok with this, since it works on the sore throat and head cold because I eat it spicy (not Isan/Lao spicy, I do not have that kind of spicy-fu, but very spicy by 'Murrican standards). All that red chili, red chili oil, and red chili hot sauce, never mind the funky fish sauce part, should surely not be ok on a sick tummy. And yet this is literally the only thing I have eaten for two days and when I do, I feel better.
I'm not complaining, I'm just confused by what my body will and won't eat when ill and how to predict in future what it will and won't. Like, honestly, if there were any remaining delis with chicken soup, esp with rice and matzo balls, that always used to be my take-out go to for being sick. But they, alas, are no more. I just struggled along with lots of hot tea and canned soup - which always tastes too salty and has kind of weird textures, sometimes.
I guess the good news is there are so many people here from regions of the world that make Tom Yum and similar, I can get it any time I want from several different places and all of them are good. In fact, there are so many that there are any number of groceries where I can get the ingredients to make it from scratch. But I'm sick and whiny and needy so I let them make it for me.
So, my head cold that had hung around for a while decided to get notably worse yesterday and I have been feeling, as Emily Blunt so notably states in The Devil wears Prada, like death warmed up. I have mostly not wanted to eat, even though I needed to if only because taking meds, and cough drops have sugar in them, etc. Also, sometimes it turns out you feel better if you eat.
So (note use of classic transition phrase "so"), I have basically eaten nothing but Tom Yum yesterday and today. I have no idea why my stomach is ok with this, since it works on the sore throat and head cold because I eat it spicy (not Isan/Lao spicy, I do not have that kind of spicy-fu, but very spicy by 'Murrican standards). All that red chili, red chili oil, and red chili hot sauce, never mind the funky fish sauce part, should surely not be ok on a sick tummy. And yet this is literally the only thing I have eaten for two days and when I do, I feel better.
I'm not complaining, I'm just confused by what my body will and won't eat when ill and how to predict in future what it will and won't. Like, honestly, if there were any remaining delis with chicken soup, esp with rice and matzo balls, that always used to be my take-out go to for being sick. But they, alas, are no more. I just struggled along with lots of hot tea and canned soup - which always tastes too salty and has kind of weird textures, sometimes.
I guess the good news is there are so many people here from regions of the world that make Tom Yum and similar, I can get it any time I want from several different places and all of them are good. In fact, there are so many that there are any number of groceries where I can get the ingredients to make it from scratch. But I'm sick and whiny and needy so I let them make it for me.
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