Paracetamol, plenty of fluids & rest.

It’s like being gifted a designer bag by someone you hardly know, you don’t quite know if it’s the genuine article. I still don’t know if I actually had swine flu, though my doctor insists I did. How does he know? They didn’t test me; he was diagnosing and refusing to give me medicines on the phone.

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