Yesterday afternoon I decided to treat myself. I was at a coffee place (no need to name names) and got one of those lovely summertime treats: the frozen coffee beverage with whipped cream on top. Now, I love whipped cream so much that I usually save it for last…that’s the beauty of whipped cream on a FROZEN bevvie; it doesn’t melt into the drink, and you can slurp it up solo (with the choco-sauce drizzled on top) at the very end. YUMMM…
Now I will say that when I ate the whipped cream off my drink yesterday, it just didn’t feel quite right. It’s not that it tasted bad, it’s more that it was just, well, sorta wrong: a bit greasy, a bit stick-on-the-lips-y. I was slightly disturbed, but put it down to the chocolate sauce, that perhaps the cream was a bit frozen? Whatever. It was not quite right, but I ate it anyway.
WRONG DECISION!
Just a few short hours later, as I was putting my kids to bed, my head started to reel, I broke out in a cold sweat, I could hardly make it to the bathroom in time. I was SICK. So sick that when my husband got home from work, even he was worried (this is a man who is not easily phased by other peoples’ illness. His own, yes. Other peoples’…not so much). I had such bad spins that I couldn’t focus on anything…but closing my eyes only felt worse. I was dizzy, nauseous, and HOT! but I didn’t have a fever. I was sweating and shivering and my body was availing itself of every means it could find of expelling the badness from within. I thought for a while it must have been food poisoning, then speculated on the possibility of West Nile Virus (of course I don’t even know what the symptoms are and don’t really have any mosquito bites to speak of). I even had one dark, dark moment where I thought I might be pregnant again.
This morning I was still sick enough that I made the short trip to the doctor’s office. And even she remarked with dismay how bad I looked! But at least she was able to diagnose me. It is official. It has been Verified. By The Doctor. I HAVE FOOD POISONING.
It is death. It is worse than death. I have personally had strep throat and pneumonia, and neither one of them has anything on food poisoning. I am on a restricted diet of nothing but gatorade, and even that is next to impossible to get down. Gravol brings a measure of relief, but just enough to take the raging, dizzy sickness down to a dull roar. I have been told to expect at least another day of it before it is completely out of my system.
Some treat, eh? I tell you this, anyway. It’s going to take a while before I am up to eating anything with whipped cream on it!
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Oh no!!! I’m sorry Kath, that’s so YUCKY!!! I hope it’s out sooner than later. Remember, the more you can get out of your system, the faster it’ll be over :-+
How awful! I had food poisoning many years ago and ended up needing to get a Gravol injection (as in a needle) to stop the insanity!
food poisoning is the WORST.
you poor thing!
that’s so strange that you got it from whipped cream, though…i always thought it was just “an edible oil” product…hahaha.