Send good thoughts for my throat/voice

[drloretta]

I picked up some random virus on Saturday that has essentially given me laryngitis with no other symptoms. I'm supposed to sing in my church choir on Saturday to record a CD. Send good thoughts I won't still sound like a bullfrog by then

::off to drink more tea::

[bostonmichelle]

Sending lots of positive thoughts!

Have you done any lemon & honey? I had a friend in college that I made her hot lemon & honey during tech week for our school's musical. She was one of 2 female leads and lost her voice about a week before opening night. She went on to do fine.

[drloretta]

I tried honey so far and realized I HATE HONEY.

But I will try with lemon. Tea is getting old.

I"m a little better today, but far from song-worthy

[bostonmichelle]

drloretta. This is the recipe I use. It makes two mugs of beverage. I put a small pot on low on the stove. I heat up 1-2 tbsp of honey and section a lemon minus the peel and throw the lemon sections in the honey. I wait a couple minutes for the honey to be warm and more liquidy. If you have lemon juice you can add that as well, like a tsp or two to taste. Then I add 2 mugs of water to the pot. I stir pretty constantly to make sure it doesn't burn. Then empty the pot into two mugs and you have hot honey and lemon. The honey coated lemon chunks help a lot.

Maybe all the lemon will mask the honey flavor?

[drloretta]

Ooh, I will try this after my next project is done! (did I mention I love working from home?)

And I just found lemon slices in my freezer!

[cgpm]

Guess you can't talk to anyone between now and then. Good thing you work from home!
But seriously...I hope it clears up before then.

[scm1011]

I hope you're better today! That'd be a bummer to miss

[drloretta]

Still pretty bad today. I'll probably skip tonight's practice

[drloretta]

My SIL said to eat an entire baked lemon and my laryngitis will disappear. I'm skeptical

[drloretta]

Update: I was about 75% yesterday. I still did the recording, and lip synched when I felt my voice couldn't handle it. Now I get to rest and recover!

[bostonmichelle]

Glad to hear you were still able to do the recording!

[5kcandlesinthewind]

Glad you were able to participate! Hope you're feeling better.