From the 30 yr. old NY Realtor: Get ready people; here it is! [img]smileys/smilies_02.gif[/img]If you are nauseaus, take 1 Zantac and 1 Charcoal pill (you can buy both in CVS) Everytime I have taken the 2 of them together (with only water) the feeling went away. HERE'S THE PRESSURE POINT for nauseausness: where your wrist meets your hand, place 2 fingers across the inside of the wrist. 2 finger widths away from the line of your wrist joint is a pressure point for nausea. Push on it w/one finger (you should feel it maybe hurt a little when you find it with your finger) and hold for 1 min. Then do the other wrist, same spot. Then go JUST BEYONDthat point, (only a teensy bit, not even a finger's width) and hold there for another minute. Switch hands again.
BREATHING: Breath very deeply inward. Visualize the yucky feeling as green. Inhale white puffy clouds, which are healing (hey, with the Charcoal/Zantac/pressure point, this stuff works!) as you exhale, breath OUT the green. Your goal is to do this enough times that you have mentally convinced yourself that it is gone.
I hope this works for even 1 person here. I SWEAR by the Zantac/Charcoal. BE CAREFUL not to take too much Zantac or Charcoal though. Charcoal 'absorbs toxins' and whether it's bs or not, if it works, I do it and it has yet to fail.
Holidays DO stink; especially knowing you'll be around people that 'may be carrying something'. My family knows how freaked out I am and look at me funny (NY snobs!! hehehe) but they know enough not to mess with me any more about it. My mom called last night and said she was sick ONCE the night before w/bad pains in her stomach. I immediately asked her "How many times were you sick?!" and she said "Only once though!!" (I think she was trying to make me feel better-haha) and then she said "But I think it was because I had such bad cramps!" OK, so now she was carrying it Saturday and we were all packed intoher house for my sister's bday. She got it Sunday night. Everyone is supposed to go to my other sister's house on Thanksgiving and I'm wondering who may be carrying it where it might be contagious. God help us all.... can you imagine the NON-emets that read our posts? They must secretly be thinking.... "Oooooh my Goooood, are these people serioussss?" Note to all: Take a minute and sit back and try to laugh at this thought: All over right now, there are a million people all over town launching (hehehe) and we are the superiors to be so friggin scared of it that we can fight the chances of getting it and they really cant! They aren't thinking about it enough to keep washing hands, cleaning, being SAFE about it, etc!!! We're the ones that are so neurotic that we do whatever we have to in order to keep it away! Take comfort in knowing that even if people think we are crazy, we know what we're doing! How long has it been since everyone's been sick??
Hope this helps and didn't offend anyone.