B.S. and A.S. : Before and After Sickness

Hopefully for you, like Cafe Drake, you will only succumb to the Flu - the Real Deal, the True, Dark Prince - no more than once every couple of decades. But when you Do, prayers are offered for the health blessings we have throughout the other 19 years, such are the medieval torments of this most vicious virus. Cafe D. spent the last week in the hellish throes of influenza, alternating between soaked midnight sheets and shivering mid-afternoons, coughing, retching and racked with an astonishing array of aches and ailments too graphically disturbing to relate on a food-based website. Below we present our "food diary" of the nightmarish days and nights, revealing in its dietary choices and hopefully helpful in guidance for those soon to follow in our pained footsteps.

SUNDAY PM

(temp: 101 F.)

water

plain brown rice

MONDAY AM

water

peppermint tea

MONDAY PM

peppermint tea

Kozy Shack rice pudding (small amount)

TUESDAY AM

water; green tea

TUESDAY PM

rice pudding

Blondie brownie

peppermint tea

Chai Green tea

WEDNESDAY AM

orange juice

lemon-lime Gatorade

soft-boiled egg

whole wheat toast (1 piece, dry)

WEDNESDAY PM

(temp: 103 F.)

peppermint tea

rose hips tea

lemon water

Emergen-C fizzy drink

THURSDAY AM

orange juice

Irish Breakfast tea

rice pudding

Blondie brownie

Cranberry Oatmeal Cookie

THURSDAY PM

homemade chicken soup

chamomile tea

bleu cheese and scallion scone

FRIDAY AM

orange juice

poached eggs (2)

whole wheat toast 

FRIDAY PM

Roast Pork Chow Fun

Broccoli with Bean Curd in Garlic Sauce

Brown Rice (all from Chinese delivery)

Peppermint Tea

Orange-flavored Gatorade