Sick, Reckless, and Restless

It’s not often we feel sick, reckless, and restless at the same time, but it happens.

2 days ago I suddenly got food poisoning. It was 8 AM.

In my dreams, I felt nauseous and felt like vomiting.

The dream felt so vivid and I woke up to the nausea.

I went to the bathroom, with almost no time to tie my hair up, wipe the toilet seat and prepare some tissues, I felt my vomit rising up my throat.

The red residue of vino, cranberry juice, and watermelon came up.

It wasn’t sweet. The acidic taste gave me chills and I felt restless.

I don’t usually vomit easily. I’ve had a traumatic incident during childhood.

In fact, when I was a child, I vomited plenty. I didn’t like food and I hated to chew or swallow.

I’d keep storage of all my food on the inside of my mouth until all flavor was gone and what’s left of it… I dreaded to swallow.

One day, as me and my parents went to a pricey restaurant, I vomited on a plate of fresh, hot, and untouched porridge, after only one spoon.

Vomiting was becoming a habit and my mother and father were routinely cleaning up my mess.

Until…

They got sick of it.

My mother asked me to then finish the porridge, blended with my very own exquisite taste of puke.

It was disgusting to say the least.

Tears and drama were definitely involved but it’s safe to say that my habit of committing significantly reduces, and I started to become…

A foodie.

Yes.

But 2 days ago. 8 AM, 8.40, 9, 9.20..

I went back and forth to the bathroom until I decided to take some plastic bags to put next to my bed.

Then I vomited much more efficiently.

Maybe that’s what they mean by working smart, and not hard.

Or maybe I was just reckless.

I was afraid that one of these times, I’d miss making it to the bathroom and vomit all over the floor.

Thankfully that didn’t happen.

Mind you, at that time, I still wasn’t sure of what might have caused the symptoms.

Noon came and it was finally time to get out of bed.

I went to the bathroom mirror, finally with my glasses, and was not remotely surprised or shocked to see that my face was suddenly complemented with red dots and rashes.

I wasn’t panicking, but only because I’ve spent my entire morning exerting energy beyond my limits to get all those vile out my body.

I finally started tracing down what food and drinks I consumed that were new or unusual.

Snack.

I recently bought TGIF Baked corn snacks that was on sale.

Buy 1 get 1 free.

I got two bags for the price of one.

This is what I call reckless spending.

I forgot to check the expiry date, I thought.

But no, I had no problems with expiry dates.

I rarely suffered from them. A little trip to the bathroom maybe, but nothing like this.

I couldn’t bring myself to check right away.

The thoughts of revisiting my ‘attack weapon’ was too gruesome.

I waited a day until the vomiting was over, to find out that it was 2 months to expiry date.

Y’all don’t buy this snack.

But here’s a good lesson I learned.

Don’t buy a buy 1 get 1 snack. Those are shady stuff.

Yeah that’s about it.

Thank you for reading.