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[just because]

Well, it had been about 2.5 years since my last bout of it here so I suppose I was due.

Had some fish on Friday night, which was damn delicious and the restaurant was really classy so i pressumed i was safe.

So all day Saturday I couldn't eat(which I put down to a lot alcohol consumption on Friday night) but I got on with it. Then on Saturday night I vomited everything(and I mean everything) out. I had never vomited so much in my life.

All day Sunday, i was in this incredible pain, couldn't move, couldn't open my eyes. I felt like I was dying.

Woke up today and now I am fine, besides a little bit of a sore stomach and have given myself the day off work to make sure I recover fully, much to the annoyance of the wonjang(but c'mom, i haven't had a sick day in 10 months).

So what a rollercoaster ride. Not one I will want to go on anytime again soon

[the eye]

so...did you have a good weekend?

[vlcupper]

Dude, I know how you feel. My friend and I had something similar last year. I puked every hour on the hour for 12 hours straight. I felt lousy all day, but my boss (the bitch) wouldn't let me leave. It started at the end of my last class. I couldn't keep ANYTHING down. Not even water. I would sip Kool Aid so the sugar could give me some kind of energy but I just kept puking and puking. I literally had to crawl on my hands and knees to call my boss to tell her I couldn't go in. The bitch wanted me to go in anyway. The cunt kept saying where was she going to find somebody to replace me? What was she going to do?? When I went back to work the next day, she told me I had to tell her when I was going to be sick, so she could make arrangements. Because, you know, westerners are given a 6 week notice from their bodies when they're going to be sick.

God, I fucking hate that fucking cunt.

[just because]

Well, my director was nowhere near as bad as that.

My girlfriend rang up for me (seeing she can speak Korean and I can get the message across a lot better) and told tham I have gastroenteritis and that I cannot work.

They kept saying, oh very difficult, i don't think so but she just told them they will have to manage and hung up.

Plus she lives in the neighbouring city which is helpful as they can't get a hold of me until I go to work tomorrow .

To be honest, the wonjang is really good, just we have a small hagwon and it is a little difficult but there was no way I could work today.

[Derrek]

I am a firm believer that this is happening more lately, because Korean restaurants are trying to save money in the bad economy. They are serving things that are older instead of throwing it out.

[desultude]

I had this happen with a taste of a single raw oyster from Home Plus. It didn't taste right, so I spit it out. It was so toxic that I barfed all night and all day. Felt weak as a baby for days after. I took me at least a week before I tried another oyster. Really.

I'm doing fried oysters at home tonight. Wish me luck!

[desultude]

By the way, Derrek- its nice of you to quote me in your sig line. But I don't really get what is so special about what I said. I guess it is just special because I said it.

[JongnoGuru]

(In addition to too many mild skirmishes to mention) I've had three epic, thread-worthy battles with food-poisioning in the past seven or so years, the last being nearly all day Sunday and into this morning. The suspect? Istanbul in Itaewon. The falafel and lamp/beef whatever were the only items besides bottled beer & bottled water (and medicine) to enter or leave my stomach all weekend long.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I do believe that was me last Sunday. I guess I should be happy it wasn't the start of the worst flu ever but just 24 hours of malicious pain. At first I thought it was just a bad hangover, and then a wicked flu, but even the worst of hangovers don't last that long and grow so steadily worse before they get better and one doesn't recover from the flu so quickly. Shivering in bed and getting up every hour on the hour for many hours to vomit, just like someone wrote above. In my case I think it was from those seafood and egg things on a stick - I bought four of them from Lotte, and one of them probably did the trick. I had a really sore throat and mouth afterwards which I think was caused by all the acidic vomit.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

Check out the thread I posted on viral gastroenteritis. Could be that it wasn't food poisoning. "Stomach Flu" is making its rounds this year. My ass leaked for 3 days, no joke. Mention �忰 to Koreans and watch them give you a wide berth.

Sparkles*_*

[desultude]

[Zenpickle]

[John Henry]

Oh god, i feel your pain.

Had a similar incident a few weeks ago. Puked pretty much every last drop of liquid out of my body. The shitty thing is you get so dehydrated that you have to try to drink somehitng, which undoubtedly results in you puking again, which leads to dehydration, which leads to.....

But it only lasted one day, thought it would be the end of me.

[desultude]

[JongnoGuru]