There's been many a time when I've settled my upset stomach with a couple of well-done plain McDonalds cheeseburgers. Something about it works wonders. Has to be well done and plain though...

Chinese remedies no longer have to be bitter as hell. You can go pop a Chinese garlic pill with a sugar coating that will probably give you a kick for 10 minutes...at least mine do.

Well, I find that getting out of god-awful six seater planes with the pilots on crack flying it usually makes me feel much better.....

Other than that, the trip so far is going well. We have seen coastal desert and associated fauna, and not-so-coastal desert which looks more like the deserts in the far side cartoons, and the oasis. You can tell where the underground rivers and wet-season rivers are because there are strips of short trees and shrubs. We stood outside for an hour looking at really old desert mummies and I learned that deserts, while beautiful from the bus window are bloody hell in the wind, and really cold at night.

Hope you all are good.

No, No Par, Future Doctor Paras will do the diagnosis, not present day Paras. They'll send a message to us from the future and help Alison out.

And placebo work suprisingly very well even though I know I'm taking a placebo.

Really, I don't know much at all. There's any number of Indian remedies that I've used that can't help because they can't really get to you over the internet (and I'm not 100% sure about their efficacy.) Eating something light (eg. crackers) usually, at least, stays down for me, and gives me the energy to not feel like crap. Other than that, though, I'm nowhere near as useful as, say, motherly advice.

I am curious about how effective a placebo is when you know it's a placebo...

When did you start feeling ill? Usually I take some kind of chinese medicine placebo and I'm fine within the next day. The placebo should taste bitter as hell so you'll shock yourself better so you won't have to take that good awful placebo anymore.

Ginger ale is a good idea though, it's easy on the stomach and will usually keep even if you feel like hurling. The only thing I learned from dietitics as dictated by my sister.

If you tell more of you sympthoms I'm sure future Doctor Paras can make a diagnosis.

thanks Par, much obliged...

okay, soliciting ideas/help from the floor: what do you do to make yourself feel better when you're ill? all this morning I've had the feeling that I ought to go on down and have a conversation with God on the porcelain telephone... and whether I eat or don't eat, sleep or don't sleep, nothing seems to be making it any better. even ginger ale isn't helping all that much. but perhaps I abuse the ginger remedy already...

ideas anyone? i've got too much to do this week to fall ill, even in the slightest...

You ought to be able to edit it now, alison. I'm not sure how it lost your username, but I changed it back to you. Enjoy.

um, Par, I was logged in when I posted that, but now, apparently I can't edit it... and the layout's all wrong. if the text had a space between it and the photos like it did during my preview, it'd work just fine, but noooooo...

oh, and I want this:

tee hee.... i promise, i will not be knitting these...



and if they don't work, just go to You Knit What? and fllip through some of their blog posts. it's a blog about the hideous knitting creations people have loosed on the world.