are you sick?

Yes, yes I am. Yes, I am drinking orange juice fortified with iron, and eating soup and not sleeping with wet hair and wearing a scarf and drinking [your favorite ethnic/herbal remedy] and not drinking milk and ...

Look, I've been sick before. I was sick when I was young and my mom made me soup, I was sick in college when a nice boyfriend or another went to the pharmacy and brought me *quil, and I've been sick since, taken care of myself and done just fine; but you - you think you've got a solution I haven't yet tried? Oh, you drank orange juice one time and it perked you right up? Really, now- did you run a control? This tea your mom always made killed that cold within 24 hours? Cool story, bro. I've got my own unquantified remedies, too!

I'm not inept and don't need your advice - if you are sincerely concerned, bring me a can of soup or make me tea you're suggesting, rather thank merely suggesting. I've got it under control on my own, thanks!

peace, love and... waffles?