Sick Diet

What do you eat when your sick?

Right on schedule, I've developed my traditional achy cold and sore throat for finals. It's not pretty. The first night it really kicked in, I realized we were out of medicine, so I would lay there and try to sleep until it would hurt so bad that I'd have to get up and try some home remedy (gargling w/ salt water, honey, etc). Which would kind of work, but also wake me up again, leaving me to lay and get sleepy just in time for the pain to kick again. Fun stuff. With medicine, I can now sleep again. Unfortunately, my voice now sounds kind of like  Christian Bale's batman. While saying ordinary things is somewhat more fun, it's still probably not the best state of things so I'm trying to get rid of this as soon as possible. 

Generally when I'm sick I go for teh comfort food route, but partially because I'm not willing to take the time to cook, and partially because I want this gone now, I'm trying something else out. My theory is that if i load my body up with as much Vitamin C as humanly possible, at some point it will reach critical mass and explode, taking all traces of sickness with it. This kind of thinking is why I'm in law school, not medical. So far I'm living largely on pomegranate seeds, orange juice and vitamin c capsules. By my calculations, I'm consuming 2000% the daily recommended approach.

Surprisingly, I think it's actually kind of working. That or my body is just naturally healing, but the point is that batman voice aside, I feel pretty good. Today, I even decided I should probably add some protein in the mix, so I've added occasional nibbles of the crumbled bacon bits I usually put into salads. It's kind of like being on a Vitamin C version of Atkins. Anyways, I should probably go study or sleep or drink some more juice, so I think I'll just go do that instead of trying to find a neat way of concluding that. Here's hoping I'm not slowly killing myself with Vitamin C and goodnight.