Hollywood has a great recipe posted in "Post Punk Kitchen" for Coconut chicken soup. I'm sure glad I found that recipe before
I got sick, that stuff is great when you first get hit with mono. Of coarse I left out the lemon juice and red pepper, my throat
was far to sore for that. I made it with the Thanksgiving turkey carcass that I had stuffed in the freezer, far better than packaged
stock. I threw in mashed up roasted sweet potatoes, peas and fresh garlic.
Oatmeal was my other food that I could manage to get down. My throat was so covered in ulcers that is was painful to swallow.
For some reason oatmeal is always soothing on a sore throat for me. When your throat is so bad that it even hurts to swallow
water, take and boil up a big batch of oatmeal with LOTS of extra water. When the oatmeal is done pour off the water into
another pot to cool, bottle(big soda bottle works good) and keep in the fridge. Drink as needed, I'm telling you this stuff has
saved me from dehydration on a few occasions. Oh and save the oatmeal that you boiled, you can eat it obviously.
The first week and a half of the symptoms were brutal for me, just a few days into it I broke down and went to the hospital were
they tested me for both step and mono. Turns out my liver and spleen are inflamed on account of this shit, and will be for
some time. The first week and a half was constant severe headaches, a fever of 101, the worst cold chills of my life,swollen glands,
mucus the consistency of slug slime and a mouth and throat covered with ulcers. Now all of that, except the inflamed liver &
spleen has disappeared and I just constantly feel exhausted. The doctors told me not to lift anything more than 10 Lbs for a
few more weeks so that I don't risk rupturing my spleen.
I'm going crazy being cooped up but at least I'm finally starting my zine in my down time.
