As you can tell, I’m feeling a lot better. Still a little scratchy, but nothing compared to before.
Thanks for the ginger advice. I was drinking a lot of lemon ginger tea along with chai and slippery elm stuff. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get to the grocery to get whole ginger until after I was already better, but I’ll bear that in mind for next time. (And I’ll be sure to tell the folks in choir. Singers are constantly looking for a better home remedy for throat troubles. It’d be nice to have one that’s actually palatable!)
Here’s a tip. Since whole ginger inevitably goes bad before you use it all, we usually peel the root and cut it into cubes of about 1-2 inches and then put it in a mason jar with enough sherry to cover the ginger. It will keep practically forever like that and that way you always have some on hand. (And it makes a nice ginger-flavored sherry that is fun to use in stir-fry sauces.)