Complete the text with the verbs from the boxes

• am writing
• are getting
• came
• said
• did not like
• told
• have known
• best
• won't do
• have been lying
• have never been
• has happened
• will help
• recover
• have

Dear Rachel,

I [ ] to you to say that the things [ ] a bit better. Yesterday the doctor [ ] and [ ] that he [ ] my cough. He prescribed some medicine for it and [ ] me to drink hot milk with honey. Rachel, I [ ] this doctor all my life, I think. He is absolutely sure that the [ ] thing for any disease is milk and honey. I hate drinking hot milk, and I [ ]  it. I [ ] in bed since Tuesday, practically unable to do anything. I [ ] like this before. I don't know what [ ] to me, but I hope the medicine [ ] me and soon I [ ].

Write when you [ ] time.

Love, Alice