Last night my friend brought me chicken soup [update: very delicious] and a kale smoothie [update: not delicious, but hopefully healthy]. I'm grateful. A coworker is trying to get me to drink something called "noni juice" which I guess has some antioxidant properties. It's generous of him.
A lot of people have a lot of different ways to show kindness and nurturing. I have to get better at showing gratitude and not being cynical and negative about the curative properties of all these things. My own ideas about what sorts of medicine work or don't work and how they work are likely just as idiosyncratic.
I've been sleeping a lot lately. That's probably good.
Koreans say, "take a rest" – not really idiomatic English for someone who is sick, but somewhere in the long line of English education in Korea they've been taught that this is the appropriate thing to say to someone who is sick, and so it's now become an integral expression in "Korean English" that I've heard even native English speakers saying..