... Feed a Cold

I woke up this morning feeling crummy, and decided I'd better cancel my volunteer gig at First Place School.

Then, as I was giving Constant, the Wonder Dog, his shower (needed since he came home from the dog ranch a week ago), I kept feeling dizzy and had to sit down a couple of times.

Now, the thing about feeling like this when you have cancer is that it's hard to tell if the problem is:

A. The cancer

B. The drugs

or:

C. Some garden-variety thing that everyone is getting.

So I waited a few hours, had coffee with a friend here instead of going out for it as we had planned, and worked on my blog for a bit. Then, sure enough, I started noticing cold symptoms. So now I can relax.

If you have cancer, you know what I'm talking about.

Now we come to the "feed a cold" part. This is what I'm eating for lunch.

It's just a package of Top Ramen (five for $1 at the QFC), dressed up with some cubes of tofu, an egg (poached in the broth), and a couple of spoonsful of miso, one red and one white. (Both kinds of miso are actually shades of brown, but in Japanese, they are red and white.)

For some reason, when I have a cold I tend to crave protein. That seems odd, but I go with my food cravings--except for the craving for a quart of green tea ice cream. I'm going to ignore that one.

The bowl is my special noodle bowl with red dragonflies painted on the side. It makes food taste better.

@ Jeanne Sather 2008.

Comments

[Carver]

I can see how food would taste better in that bowl. I'm sorry you have a cold but I know what you mean about relaxing once you knew that was what it was. I hope it will be a short cold.

[jeanne]

Carver--thanks! I really hope your water shortage ends soon so you can plant a garden!

I'm doing OK, sorry to whine about a cold, but you get it--the whole worry about "What is this? Is it serious?"

[john]

I know if I were to eat tofu I would not feal so good either. I am not sure a pretty bowl would make that taste better or not.

But being part hillbilly, I would rather a big mess of beans and cornbread. Oh, and ketchup! MMMMM

[jeanne]

Hey, John--I'd eat beans and cornbread, no problem. I love that. Homemade cornbread--hot out of the oven. Love ketchup too, but I also love tofu.

It's good, you just have to cook it right. Or spend a lot of time in Japan, where people eat it pretty much daily,

How's your mouth doing, if that's not too personal a question? Maybe you SHOULD be eating tofu! (Kidding.)

[Sara]

Oh, I'm sorry you caught a cold, but yes, yay! It was just a cold! Hurrah!

Same thing happened to me last week. Lots and lots of vegetable soup later, here we are. :)