So, I spend the weekend having this fever. It's up, it's down, it's all over the place. And I'm running way behind in the race to find out what's going on. So by the time I figure it out I'm real dehydrated. So I'm working to catch up, drinkin' water like mad, trying to keep my salt intake in line with my water intake but, I'm way behind like I said an' guess what? I'm constipated. So I says to my friend Sue, "I got this problem, see.", and she says, "No problem, my mother has just the thing for it, she calls it 'Sherpoo'. Get yerself a pound of dried apricots an' eat half of 'em today an' half of 'em tomorrow. You'll be right as rain." So, I do. So my fever's gone an' I'm sittin' there with my pitcher of water and my one pound can of dried apricots, Which I Like, an' I'm readin' a magazine. Well I finish the magazine an' I look down an' I've eaten two thirds, maybe three quarters of the pound of dried apricots! Well at first there's no problem, but a few hours later, I'm Better than 'right as rain', I'm the stinkin' GOD of Rain! and Wind! You don't wanna know. So now I'm looking for somethin' to put me back where I was, an' I find it: some ImmodiumAD left over from the War. Just One of those things can stop up a normal person for two, maybe three days! So, I take half of one. So now I'm bein' real careful... you don't wanna know... sittin around writin' email an' waitin' for the apricots and the Immodium to get it together, so to speak, an' work out some kind of balance so's I can go to bed without fear. Y'know?

There you go. It's earthy, but life is like that.