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canyonwalkerThis has been another quiet weekend at home. Scratch that; it's been a mostly quiet. Hawk and I took it easy on Saturday when the weather was cooler, planning to go out hiking somewhere Sunday when the weather was warmer. But then Hawk came down with what seemed like a case of food poisoning late Saturday night. She was up more than half the night with upset stomach and pain. Today she's been recovering but hasn't been well enough to want to leave the house even for a quick trip to the grocery store, let alone to go hiking anywhere.
It's amazing, and scary, how hard food poisoning can hit. I think all of us adults know what it's like to have eaten something that disagrees with us a little, or to have eaten too much or drank too much liquor. We throw up, we're weak; but we go to bed and sleep it off. Food poisoning is different. With food poisoning you're not only throwing up, you can't stop throwing up.
You take an OTC pill like Pepto to reduce the upset stomach? You'll throw that up.
You take a prescription med to prevent upset stomach, if you have one? You'll throw that up, too.
You drink even plain water to rehydrate after puking? You'll throw that up, too, a few minutes later.
There's basically nothing you can do to stop the pain or quell the symptoms, short of maybe an IV. Unless you want to go to the emergency room— which is its own form of suck, here in the US— you're stuck bearing the full brunt of the sickness until the food poisoning is done body-slamming you back and forth several hours— or even a few days— later.
It's amazing, and scary, how hard food poisoning can hit. I think all of us adults know what it's like to have eaten something that disagrees with us a little, or to have eaten too much or drank too much liquor. We throw up, we're weak; but we go to bed and sleep it off. Food poisoning is different. With food poisoning you're not only throwing up, you can't stop throwing up.
You take an OTC pill like Pepto to reduce the upset stomach? You'll throw that up.
You take a prescription med to prevent upset stomach, if you have one? You'll throw that up, too.
You drink even plain water to rehydrate after puking? You'll throw that up, too, a few minutes later.
There's basically nothing you can do to stop the pain or quell the symptoms, short of maybe an IV. Unless you want to go to the emergency room— which is its own form of suck, here in the US— you're stuck bearing the full brunt of the sickness until the food poisoning is done body-slamming you back and forth several hours— or even a few days— later.
