Give me alternative medicine or give me...

...Swine flu?

Last week my main man, Ellis, came down with a nasty case of influenza. Turns out he had the Swine flu, H1N1.  I came home last Monday from 10 days of taking care of his broken legged brother in Colorado, to an open armed man whom I lovingly embraced (only natural after 10 days apart, right?). The following night he told me not to kiss him as he felt the beginning of sickness creeping into his lungs. He got no rest that night and on Wednesday morning he went into the doctors only to be sent home with a note saying not to go back to work until the following Monday, some Tamaflu and a bottle of codeine cough syrup. His Doctor also recommended that I go into a clinic, inform the staff that I had been exposed to influenza A, and get on some meds asap.

So what did I do you ask? Not go to the doctors, rather my kitchen cupboards. I rarely, if ever, get sick with anything more than a slight cough so I turned to what I know, natural medicine. This is what I did: mix one shot of raw-unfiltered apple cider vinegar, two cloves of garlic diced, and 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper and down the sucker 3x a day. I also took zinc, vitamin C, and a mixture of colloidal silver and hydrogen peroxide that my father mixes up. And you know what happened? I continued to tenderly care for my man and I did NOT get sick!

It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but by golly I will take garlic and vinegar over Antibiotics any day.

Cheers,
Carley