Jaz: I totally empathize. This is one of many, many reasons (see, e.g., Michael Moore's "Sicko,"), that I support universal health care. Even as a doctor's daughter & as someone presently working in a doctor's office (at which job, btw, I work too few hours to get insurance).
Randompvg & Jaz: Likewise, when under the weather I rely upon delivery of Thai restaurants' Tom Kha soup. Though I order it with tofu instead of chicken. I found an organic canned version, but it contains mushrooms, which I don't eat. It's basically coconut milk, galanga root (Thai ginger), kaffir leaves, lime, tomatos, sometimes broccoli or carrots, onion, cabbage, red chili pepper, & lemongrass. Opens your sinuses (as does honey mustard with horseradish from a real Jewish deli).
Hawkeye: Thanks for valuable info. That is scary info actually. Oh and no one is supposed to charge for H1n1. It is provided free, to & by Public Health. Providers are, however, allowed to charge up to the Medicare standard of $19.83 or so, as an "administrative fee". I can't even tell you how many doctors & nurses & dentists call us, even they cant get the vaccine. I got it, hopefully it worked (there was some dry yellow/brown on the cotton ball on my arm 2 days later; hopefully it didn't leak out! the doc says that was "serum" i.e. a part of the blood lacking red blood cells?)
