I ate in some pretty dodgy places in Southeast Asia, but never had a problem. Lucky, I guess. To get a dose from good Southern home cooking was a part of the pain. When you work in small units your choices are local or field rations, and the rations were from the Korean War, if not before. We learned to hit a grocery store before deploying.

Everyone should stash emergency rations, and chocolate is a high energy food. Of course there is a lot of protein in peanut butter. Sounds like a good choice for survival.

Two ambulances actually showed up (must have been a quit night), and one of the Paramedics began asking me stupid questions! I could hardly breathe let all one answer questions! It felt like I was being gutted with a rusty knife. My heart rate was through the roof, and breathing was very difficult. Then they gave me an anginine pill (which is SOP apparently for anyone with any kind of chest pain). You have to keep it under your tongue, difficult when one is barely conscious! I manages to gasp out “NO!” when the paramedic asked if I was allergic to morphine (at that point, I would have said no even if I was allergic! Luckily, I’m not.) In the hospital, every couple hours they’d pop another anginine under my tongue. They feel like little thumb tacks! Every half hour the nurse would ask (on the usual scale of 1 to 10) how the pain was, and I’d get a morphine boost until it was zero.

Yeah, they thought it was botulism. I know they called investigators to the restuarant the next day. I heard that 4 others had been hospitalized also.

Now, if I ever have to go to Sydney, I take my own food! At least, I’ll never eat seafood or chicken there! 🙂

Lady Min is like a Squirrel… She has secret stashes of stuff she discovers all over the place. LOL Whenever she does a *Spring clean* she’ll usually say she found something with a use-by date a year or so ago! LOL

It only takes once to make you a firm believer in food safety.

My current supply of peanut butter snacks are on hold. There is no way I would chance food poisoning. I had it once 30 years ago and the memory is still vivid.

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For whatever reason, morphine does nothing for me, as far as pain or anything else goes. I apparently don’t process it like most people. Aspirin is the most effective relief for pain available to me. It makes dental work a real thrill.

Once was more than enough.

I also am sensitive to bacteria in lettuce and *especially* sprouts. Those things get contaminated just sitting in the produce section. Ugh.

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People who have never been hit with a dose, have no idea how truly miserable you can be. It’s the world’s worst hangover without even the memory of a buzz.

I’ve been poisoned twice and both times by seafood. Once by fried shrimp and once by oysters. Both times I was traveling and by myself in a hotel. Nightmare experience.

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