Tag: home remedies
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Dear new golden sick days…
Sick days, sick days Dear new golden sick days Sniffling and sneezing and hacking cough Kept me at home on a rare day off. Were I a teacher I’d go to work Share all my germs, make my illness worse. But the job I have now I can duty shirk Without hurting a classroom of kids. — (my revised, working girl version of […]
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‘Hi-Yo, Laryngitis! Away!’
Who was that masked woman? Actually, the question people likely asked as I rode away in my trusty white van was, “What infectious disease did she have that she had to wear a mask?” Fearing for their own safety, no doubt they wanted me to be like the Lone Ranger — racing away on my […]
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My mother was right, of course…
This morning, my 17-year-old son was up before 7, despite having filmed the varsity football semi final and arriving home late the night before. (Woohoo! The Cougars are heading for the state final next week!) Before I saw him, however, I saw the empty packets of Emergen-C and the kitchen shears strewn on the kitchen […]
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