Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
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Thankfully I was able to get the grandbaby’s birthday cake finished before this crud hit me at full force. I really thought I wasn’t getting sick it had been almost a week since sil was sick. It hit my daughter last night.
Since I can’t show a picture this website will have to do. I used to think this chocolate icing was a secret and her’s exclusively until I found it online. This recipe is a little different. Mine is simple with fewer ingredients. This right here is just one of the reasons sweets have had a hold on me most of my life. My grandma baked every grandkid a birthday cake. My brother always had chocolate & I had strawberry cream cheese, strawberries in cake batter and icing. A few years after she passed my daughter and I spent most of the day making it. It was such joy to make what she did every year well into adulthood.
Hard Chocolate icing cake
Interestingly enough I am also sick. Sore throat, runny nose, a little cough, sinus/tooth pain, watery eyes, and chills
It sucks because I was just sick right before Christmas. Either these shedders are getting out of hand or their immune systems are turbo charging the average URIs
Hi, going through old notifications that I might have missed . I hope you are doing better.
I hope you are feeling better. I’m still pretty sick. Hence why I haven’t posted much lately. I’m trying to reply to people a little bit at a time. IDK what it is. I’m inclined to believe it’s a dang bio weapon. I know several people that have been sick in the past two months and everyone has different symptoms. My daughter, granddaughter, myself and sil have had different symptoms. I believe me & sil had it the worst. Maybe it targets your weakness’ in your body. Just thinking out loud. Just don’t understand how everyone has something different.
Had it last week. After 24 hour denial, started on Ivermectin (horse paste variety), high dose liposomal vitamin C, vD 5k units, Quercetin and zinc.
Also, my old "go to" cold tea: one teabag (I use ginger or Throat Coat, 1 tsp or more lemon juice, 1 tsp manuka or good honey, and 1/4 or more cayenne pepper!
The tea provides almost instantaneous relief while the supplements do their work.
I love that you’re carrying on your family tradition with ‘homemade with love’ birthday cakes!
Sorry you got the crud. My family has had it all week and I thought I was going to be spared but this morning, I can feel it coming on.
Rest easy and feel better soon so you can enjoy your grand baby!