May 16th, 2006
Poor self-promotion and sore throats
Colm reckons I’m bad at self-promotion but I’m sure the world doesn’t need to have me tugging at their sleeve like a clingy child telling them about every time I’m on the radio or TV. However, I need help people. Recording starts this afternoon and I’ve got a very bad throat. It was achy after the play last night and several hot drinks and an early night hasn’t helped.
As a friend helpfully pointed out, I may sound sexy and husky, but I don’t want the oul voice to clap out altogether.
So any remedies? Is it herbal tea and lemon or elephantine doses of over the counter drugs?
May 16th, 2006 at 8:42 am
Sinead I have had to do gigs as a singer when I haven’t been feeling well, so I feel your pain! Advice forthwith: If your tonsils are sore then you need to gargle with salt and water (yuck I know, but the ONLY thing that works) once an hour. If it’s a scratchy throat then see if you can get some Throat-Cote from a pharmacy or online. Otherwise overdose yourself with Vitamin C (I tend to take 3,000% of my RDA when I’m sick).
May 16th, 2006 at 8:46 am
Coca Cola. Seriously.
May 16th, 2006 at 9:18 am
I’m with Alex, vitamin C all the way. Maybe do the herbal thing with lemon or orange in it.
Twenty - does Coke really work?
May 16th, 2006 at 9:34 am
Yep, if you want to maintain your dulcet tones and not sound like a 80 Major a day person Coke is the man.
May 16th, 2006 at 10:29 am
A friend texted me to say that gargling either diluted TCP or vinegar is the answer. Have no TCP so just tried vinegar. The dog was staring at me with that confused headtilt, so I start laughing, swallowed some, starting choking/gagging simultaneously and now my oesaphagus feels like an asbestos tunnel. If it works, I don’t care.
After that, I’ll be trying herbal tea and lemon.
Seriously Twenty, I want some scientific back up for the coke suggestion…
May 16th, 2006 at 11:58 am
I agree with Colm.
May 16th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Oh, and was the play good? I’m tempted sneak away to one before I’m granted absolute - though no doubt ephemeral - freedom.
May 16th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
*lol*, your vinegar gulping escapade with the dog looking on is strangely humourous.
May 16th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Kevin, I couldn’t possibly say before later.
Cahony, it was bit funny, hence me half-choking. I was smiling through the tears though…