Uhg, got food poisoning.

Red

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On Friday, April 29th, my fiancee and I met up with her parents at a local Mexican restaurant. We all ordered Fajita Nachos (steak) and cheese dip. We ate around 6:30pm or so.

That night, around midnight, my fiancee threw up and I had barely slept because of an upset stomach. In the morning, her mother was also sick. Father = ok. I was the only one who ate the entire meal. I got sick in the morning, and the rest of the day I threw up 28 times. The next day, Sunday, I felt a little better, but had diarrhea. On Monday, I got sick another 4 or 5 times and went to the emergency room that night after taking my first final exam. I was given two saline on my IV because of dehydration. They also gave me this nausea medicine (Finergin?) that made me feel like I drank 8 beers in 10 seconds. They also prescribed muscle relaxers because of an upset stomach.

The next day, my father called and got in touch with the restaurant corporate office and the store owner. He went through his whole "my associates are trained to be clean" blah blah crap. After owning him on the phone, he agreed to have his insurance call my father to negotiate a settlement. Hopefully get some cash for my pain and suffering during the week of finals. My dad said $1500 or so on top of the medical bills being paid should be sufficient. The insurance company is supposed to call tomorrow to work it out. I'll keep you all posted!

Cliff's notes:
1. Four people, including me, ate at a Mexican restaurant. 3 got sick, including me. I got severely sick and had to go to the emergency room because I couldn't even hold down a glass of water after 3 days without throwing it up.
2. Owner didn't want to apologize, was defensive about the whole thing.
3. Owner got owned and scared by health department/ mexican worker / bad press threats, agreed to jolt his insurance company to call us for a settlement.
4. ....
5. Profit!
 

meltdown75

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i ate two-day old cold pizza with chicken on it once and got food poisoning. sux0rz. sh!ttin' through the eye of a needle - ~20 times in one day. ugh. try wipin' your ass after that episode. you want the uber-soft TP for that action.
 

Otaking

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Wow.

I got food poisoning a few years ago and had to go to the ER too. Apparently my legs couldn't hold my own weight, and I collapsed. I had to get an IV to pump the vitamins back into me.

I blamed it on the Subway guy that didn't wash his hands before giving me my food, but they wanted "evidence" that my suffering was caused from them when I went to complain.

fvcktards! How can you prove that?

(I haven't gone to Subway since...)
 

Red

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Otaking-

Yeah, I was really really light headed on Saturday when I was going through my throw-up spells. If I hadn't been in bed all day, I bet I would have collapsed, I could barely get up to puke. If worse comes to worst, we have some of the food saved (left over) in refrigeration right now if it needs to be tested. Hopefully the insurance won't even bother with a test.
 

ChooChooChooseMe

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Originally posted by: meltdown75
i ate two-day old cold pizza with chicken on it once and got food poisoning. sux0rz. sh!ttin' through the eye of a needle - ~20 times in one day. ugh. try wipin' your ass after that episode. you want the uber-soft TP for that action.

:Q
 

meltdown75

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Originally posted by: ChooChooChooseMe
Originally posted by: meltdown75
i ate two-day old cold pizza with chicken on it once and got food poisoning. sux0rz. sh!ttin' through the eye of a needle - ~20 times in one day. ugh. try wipin' your ass after that episode. you want the uber-soft TP for that action.

:Q

^ that's me on the crapper that day. :shocked: "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHY CAN'T I FART?!"
 

Baked

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Originally posted by: meltdown75
i ate two-day old cold pizza with chicken on it once and got food poisoning. sux0rz. sh!ttin' through the eye of a needle - ~20 times in one day. ugh. try wipin' your ass after that episode. you want the uber-soft TP for that action.

Should've just step in the shower and blast your corn hole w/ cold water.
 

Otaking

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Originally posted by: Red
Otaking-

Yeah, I was really really light headed on Saturday when I was going through my throw-up spells. If I hadn't been in bed all day, I bet I would have collapsed, I could barely get up to puke. If worse comes to worst, we have some of the food saved (left over) in refrigeration right now if it needs to be tested. Hopefully the insurance won't even bother with a test.

Yeah, my roommate at the time believed that OJ was a miracle drug, so he told me I should chug half a cup or so.

I said, "No," but I did it anyways and went straight to the bathroom after that for diarrhea/puke. He told me he swore that it would have worked.
 

meltdown75

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insert puke emoticon here. i also vomited many times. the sux0rzness of food poisoning cannot be overstated.
 

Otaking

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Originally posted by: meltdown75
insert puke emoticon here. i also vomited many times. the sux0rzness of food poisoning cannot be overstated.

QFT :thumbsup:

err.. :thumbsdown: for food poisoning though
 

mrrman

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Medicinal charcoal works great for food poison...it aborbs the poisons in your body and comes in tablet form...you take 3 at a time and it works great. I was ill in Taiwan once and bought them there, not sure if these are available in North America. I bet you can buy these at Asian markets though.
 

DeadByDawn

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See. My wife always tells me that it takes about 24 hours for any food poisoning to hit you. Now I know she's wrong.
 

Fritzo

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You did the right thing. Restaurants need to hold public saftey to the highest standard, and if they're not doing that, they need to be corrected or closed. You should have called the health dept right off the bat. If there are not problems there, the owner would have nothing to worry about.
 

Fritzo

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Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: ChooChooChooseMe
Originally posted by: meltdown75
i ate two-day old cold pizza with chicken on it once and got food poisoning. sux0rz. sh!ttin' through the eye of a needle - ~20 times in one day. ugh. try wipin' your ass after that episode. you want the uber-soft TP for that action.

:Q

^ that's me on the crapper that day. :shocked: "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHY CAN'T I FART?!"

Try getting some "Kids wipes". They're like baby wipes for kids/adults. I can't live without em now :) They'll get you clean with no irritation.
 

NuclearNed

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Has the hospital confirmed what the offending bacteria was? If it was e-coli, you could literally be looking at a HUGE settlement (possibly millions of bucks).