:barf:Please pray for me.  I'm sick with URI, maybe bronchitis.  Thanks to ObamaCare, no more doctor, no raise to be able to afford one.  Off work and no pay for three days now.
Thanks in advance.
Frances :dancing-banana:

 

 

… One thing I do know is not to drink cranberry "juice" from the store, it is loaded w/sugar which will make matters worse. …

I think you may be registering "URI" as a urinary tract infection; hence your mention of cranberry juice. A URI, however, is an upper respiratory infection; i.e., a cold, tonsillitis, laryngitis, sinusitis—all those great old favorites. Being myself a full-bore alternative-medicine type, I can assure you that the only good cranberry supplements can do for such an infection is to spur fluid elimination. Of course, that's always a good thing when one is ill.

Bronchitis, like pneumonia and tracheitis, is actually a lower respiratory infection—but it's still a long way from urinary infection territory, so there's no point in quibbling, especially with someone, like our Frances, who is likely to be coughing, experiencing chest pain and congestion, and feeling generally rotten.

All together now: Please bless us and give us your guidance, O Obamanable one!

Kentucky whiskey! Sure have you no Irish!!!! :)
 :dancing-banana:

if i was near, id run around with an nagon of jameson.... wouldn't want you getting a taste for the stuff..... just 'a cure' get well soon

Dr. Claudel has the right diagnosis.

I was a medic in the army back before you were born (I think). But some things one doesn't forget—like the relative locations of the lungs and the urinary tract.

The remedy calls for Irish Whiskey, preferably Jameson's, but I'd make a sacrifice for the sake of the Faith.

I've met people who won't drink Jameson's because the distiller's family is Protestant. That's a bit, uh, preconciliar, don't you think? I, on the other hand, being a broad-minded sort of swine when it comes to the water of life, won't drink it simply because it's blended.

Bushmill's, a fine old Catholic firm, makes a great single malt. So that is the way to go for the good Catholic toper with a refined palate—unless you can afford to pay more than fifty bucks a bottle to get one of the premium, limited-production boutique brands.

:barf:Please pray for me.  I'm sick with URI, maybe bronchitis.  Thanks to ObamaCare, no more doctor, no raise to be able to afford one.  Off work and no pay for three days now.
Thanks in advance.
Frances :dancing-banana:

Wait, what happened to your doctor?