Everyone gets sick now and again. Maybe you can manage to make it through your work shift. Maybe the sickness is too bad to make it to work. As fortunate as I am to have a job, I have to work seven days a week to maintain enough income to support myself and my family. For the average poor American like myself, the options for healthcare are severely limited.
So how do you get back on your feet? How do you beat the cold, flu, or other sickness to get back to your daily lifestyle? No one can afford to take several days off of work, so time is precious and limited. If you have health insurance then you don't need to read this, but for the rest of us who can't afford health insurance and are the wrong type of person to receive help from the government this advice is for you.
Action needs to be taken immediately when you notice signs of a cold or illness. First start to drink more liquids. Drinks with added vitamins are instantly helpful at this time. Emergen-C, Sunny D, Orange Juice, and other fruit drinks with added vitamins are highly recommended. Just watch out for the amount of sugar in the drinks you choose. Next start to take vitamins. You should take one multivitamin and several vitamin C pills per day until you regain your health. I recommend buying the gummy vitamins for adults and take two when you wake up, two with every meal, and two before bed time. Yes that is more that the average daily value but when you are sick you need more than the average amount of vitamins to regain your health. Finally try and calm your symptoms with over the counter medicine such as sinus pills or cold/flu medicine. This part is where most people get carried away. You cannot depend or rely on over the counter medicine. It will not heal you, it will only calm your symptoms.
Eating healthy is also a major contributing factor in fighting off a cold or flu. I have had colds so severe that I can't seem to keep any food down much less keep trying to eat. Your body needs the nutrition in food to provide assistance in fighting the cold or illness that you are faced with. Try and only eat healthy foods during your sickness. There will be plenty of time for junk food and sodas after you get over your cold but during try and stay eating healthy.
If your sickness is so severe that you believe you need a doctor then by all means go. Sometimes it's not that easy. If you have no money at all you can go to the hospital but they will send you a bill for over one thousand dollars. My bill from St. Francis Bartlett was over twelve hundred dollars for them to see me for twenty minutes when I was sick. You could always go to a minor medical center but be prepared to spend around two to three hundred dollars just on the initial visit. Then you still have to buy prescriptions, vitamins, healthy food, etc. You have probably already taken off work for a day or two so all this money is almost impossible to come by. The only other option in Memphis is The Little Clinic in Kroger's grocery stores. The initial visit at The Little Clinic is only eighty dollars and is the cheapest doctor you can find to prescribe you the precious antibiotics you need to fight the cold.
I can't afford a doctor every time I get sick and really can't afford one when I need one so I have this way to fight my colds. I recommend drinking plenty of fluids, Emergen-C vitamin drink, adult gummy vitamins, herbal tea, health foods, and over the counter medicine. This routine should help fight the cold or sickness you are battling and get you back on your feet for your busy lifestyle.
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