Sherry (IO) where are you?
IO Storm
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Southern California
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Nobody here but this chicken! lol
I am so touched..golly..I was gone a day..
I've had a terrible bout of allergies..and the antihistamine
sorta reacted with the bipolar meds..knocked me out
much of the last two days!
Still here, still sober...
Love,
IO
I am so touched..golly..I was gone a day..
I've had a terrible bout of allergies..and the antihistamine
sorta reacted with the bipolar meds..knocked me out
much of the last two days!
Still here, still sober...
Love,
IO
believer
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Europe
Posts: 2,411
Io, don't scare me like that...lol
sherry i am kidding, take the time you need..but know one thing, i'll always love you....even if you have a completely puffy face from the allergies...joking...hey know what i take for my nose troubles?..i take water with salt...through the nose..they sell it in pharmacies...aah and equinacea in the winter prevents allergies in the spring....
take care
p.s:lol, first time i was in the studio i had a sinus crises..lol..i took every medicine,aspirins, anything, nothing worked, i took all those cortisone ishs medicines...doctors give you...duuhhhh......until i started drinking the teas....onion skin tea with honey that's what opera singers use...i am doing fine..thanks to a healthy lifestyle and a perfect friendship with a chain of love called SR!
sherry i am kidding, take the time you need..but know one thing, i'll always love you....even if you have a completely puffy face from the allergies...joking...hey know what i take for my nose troubles?..i take water with salt...through the nose..they sell it in pharmacies...aah and equinacea in the winter prevents allergies in the spring....
take care
p.s:lol, first time i was in the studio i had a sinus crises..lol..i took every medicine,aspirins, anything, nothing worked, i took all those cortisone ishs medicines...doctors give you...duuhhhh......until i started drinking the teas....onion skin tea with honey that's what opera singers use...i am doing fine..thanks to a healthy lifestyle and a perfect friendship with a chain of love called SR!
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Originally Posted by karimpatim 
...onion skin tea with honey that's what opera singers use...
How does it keep the colds away? Onion breath..no one gets near you *LOL*
Why the honey? Because onions don't always taste so good *LOL*
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well I wasn't too worried about her....OK I AM STILL A LIER! 
yeah I can relate Sherry, I know that when I get sick it just takes the ..... right out of me. I will keep ya in my thoughts. Glad that we are still clean
yeah I can relate Sherry, I know that when I get sick it just takes the ..... right out of me. I will keep ya in my thoughts. Glad that we are still clean
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Ha ha ha...
Maybe we could make this another funny thread!
Kari...I've heard of folks snorting stuff up their nose...
but salt water is a first!
Really tho...this bout with allergies have knocked me for a
loop! See, I had rheumatic fever twice a a child, and throat
infections are not good..so i need to stay "dried up".
Thanks everyone for caring..
Love,
Achooo!
IO
Maybe we could make this another funny thread!
Kari...I've heard of folks snorting stuff up their nose...
but salt water is a first!
Really tho...this bout with allergies have knocked me for a
loop! See, I had rheumatic fever twice a a child, and throat
infections are not good..so i need to stay "dried up".
Thanks everyone for caring..
Love,
Achooo!
IO
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: FL
Posts: 14,246
IO-
When hubby and I were first married we had an old doc who was semi-retired and he told us to snort salt water! I nearly choked!! Plus, it you make it too strong it will remove your tonsils! (yeeowww) It works though, but it's much easier to just buy some saline nasal spray at the pharmacy like karim suggested!!
I have _never_ heard of onion skin tea though hot tea with honey and lemon helps me if I'm singing-no dairy, caffeine, sodas or orange juice allowed 4 hours prior to singing.
When hubby and I were first married we had an old doc who was semi-retired and he told us to snort salt water! I nearly choked!! Plus, it you make it too strong it will remove your tonsils! (yeeowww) It works though, but it's much easier to just buy some saline nasal spray at the pharmacy like karim suggested!!
I have _never_ heard of onion skin tea though hot tea with honey and lemon helps me if I'm singing-no dairy, caffeine, sodas or orange juice allowed 4 hours prior to singing.
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i know an opera singer who was fired because he chew garlic on stage...and he had a close scene with a woman...lol..she felt like fainting....lol
but what i said about nasal spray is right, doctor prescription, and that tea, does work with sinus attacks and rhinitis....but its old portuguese traditions...so...the onion and garlic have great properties against virus, and help build up the immune system...we use it in cooking almost everything...
but for opera, the only thing i know that works is vocalizes, and technique, like a teacher of mine says, a person with technique even when sick,can sing...
take care!glad for you all being fine!
but what i said about nasal spray is right, doctor prescription, and that tea, does work with sinus attacks and rhinitis....but its old portuguese traditions...so...the onion and garlic have great properties against virus, and help build up the immune system...we use it in cooking almost everything...
but for opera, the only thing i know that works is vocalizes, and technique, like a teacher of mine says, a person with technique even when sick,can sing...
take care!glad for you all being fine!
believer
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exactly, salt and water, perfectly harmless, just expensive, like 5 dollars a bottle..same thing if you go to the beach everyday for a while, still get the air on the nostrils....i do with the 5 vowels all kinds of sounds, but that too...we do stacatto work and all that..i have a natural vibrato, so that's what i work more on.to control it...every singer has particular needs so i try to do my own, personal exercises..but it took me a year to realize what to do....lol..i love singers CMC!
buy The Voice Book, by Michael McCallion, it's on amazon at least..i have a bunch of books, but that is the best book of posture and voice care, i ever read..it's worth it..
stay strong
buy The Voice Book, by Michael McCallion, it's on amazon at least..i have a bunch of books, but that is the best book of posture and voice care, i ever read..it's worth it..
stay strong
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Technique..will..and a little help from HP!
I sang in the church for years..
One Christmas cantata..I had two solo's back to back...
the second was difficult..Mary's Magnificat..with low notes to high..
The day before I came down with a horrible flu..104 degree fever..
Guess what? I suited up and showed up.
The choir prayed for me before the show..
and I wasn't sure how I sounded..the fever made my
ears pound.
When I heard the tape later that evening..I cried and cried..
I had NEVER sang better..like an angel..
As RZ says...
the powers that be..
Love,
IO
I sang in the church for years..
One Christmas cantata..I had two solo's back to back...
the second was difficult..Mary's Magnificat..with low notes to high..
The day before I came down with a horrible flu..104 degree fever..
Guess what? I suited up and showed up.
The choir prayed for me before the show..
and I wasn't sure how I sounded..the fever made my
ears pound.
When I heard the tape later that evening..I cried and cried..
I had NEVER sang better..like an angel..
As RZ says...
the powers that be..
Love,
IO
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