Make Your Own Throat Lozenge

I have the world's worst sore throat. It's been going around the preschool teachers and I'm its latest victim. It has been diagnosed in others as a virus that mimics strep but isn't. All I know is that it feels there's glass shards in my throat. And guess what? You can't not swallow if you don't want to either. It's like breathing or something. I know because I've tried. Last night I woke up with tears on my face it hurts so bad. I got a prescription for some numbing stuff to gargle and was told to take Mucinex and Ibuprofen. And to watch my mg's because I was poppin' them 4 at a time without any pain relief. Well, the numbing gargle works great on my tongue and only about 50% relief for the throat. What's weird is that I keep looking at my throat expecting to see fire engine red and it absolutely looks normal! How can that be?!

After talking to my uncle on the phone this morning he suggested I get Halls Plus with 10 mg of Menthol....the hard core advanced vapor action lozenge. It takes a virus of near epic proportions to make me actually put a cough drop in my mouth and this is a blog worthy event because I'm on my 4th one of the day. I really, really, really detest the things. They make me gag. I think they are all disgusting, so I thought I would try to invent a new, perhaps slightly tolerable tasting lozenge that I could stand for 1-3 minutes of throat numbing blessedness. I combine the dreaded Halls Honey-Lemon Plus with Hot Tamales. I have a bunch of Hot Tamales lined up and pop them one at a time and adhere it to the side of the disgustomundo cough drop and try to pretend it's all cinnamon vapor action and none of that menthol I hate so much as my throat gets slightly numb. When I can start sensing the yuckiness, in goes another Hot Tamale. And when I hit the supposedly "soothing syrup center" I gag and spit it all out. There's not enough Hot Tamales in the world to cover THAT up!

Jo Anne, thanks for the 3 boxes of Hot Tamales you dropped off...they'll go a long way for the other lozenges I'll be going through for the next 3-5 days this virus will last.