A while back my husband and I bought a bullet, thinking how
much fun we would have making healthy shakes.
I went to the grocery store and bought a variety of fruits, vegetables
and raw pumpkin seeds. The first one
that he made was hard to drink because of the bright green color and he had put
spinach in it, which apparently raw spinach doesn’t agree with my tummy. So I went a while without having another one
until one dreaded Friday.
My husband decided one Friday to make us a fruit shake with
a variety of frozen fruit and yogurt. It
tasted delicious and even told him how great it tasted. We leave for the office and on the way there
are started thinking that I didn’t feel very good but that I probably just
needed something other than just a shake.
When I got to the office I decided to eat some pretzels that I had in my
desk drawer, not a wise idea. While eating
the pretzels I break out in a sweat and feel the need to get sick, yuck not a
work.
I run to the restroom, luckily it was a false alarm or so I
thought. I go back to my desk and start
working, all of a sudden I feel like I need to get sick. I run to the restroom, no false alarm this
time. I rinse out my mouth and think “ok
now maybe I will start to feel better”.
I get back to my desk and once again I need to run to the restroom. After about the third time I call my husband
and said I’m going home. Thank God I
keep towels in the car because as he was driving me home I was getting sick
every 3 – 5 minutes.
We arrive home and I run into the house to continue what I
had started at the office. This is when
my husband decided to do some research on what was going on with me. I have my head in a bucket; I’m trying to sip
water and praying that it stays down. He
comes into the room with me and says “I googled your symptoms and I’ve narrowed
it down to three probably causes”. I’m
thinking “what the . . . “. He says “it
could be a concussion”, I replied that I didn’t hit my head, “ok so then we can
rule that out, so then it could be food poising or a mental health issue”, I’m
looking at him and still thinking “what the . . . “, I then blurt out that it
must be mental health because I’m sitting here and listening to this. We then determined that it must be food
poising, which is what I figured all along.
Once we determined that it was food poising he then decided
to read to me the ingredients from my morning shake. I still have my head in a bucket, taking sips
of water and praying that it stays down when he begins to read the ingredients. If you have ever had food poising going over
what you ate is not a smart idea. He
keeps reading as I’m getting sicker by the minute and finally I couldn’t take
it any more so I scream out, “I have mental health issues so just stop talking”. He quietly walks into the other room and
thank God I fell asleep.
It has now been a couple of weeks, I still can’t eat fruit
or yogurt and my husband has come to the conclusion that it was food poising
after all.
