I spent all day Saturday sick as hell. I had to go in to work at 6:15 AM (after closing the night before) because the opener lost her store key, and started getting sick that morning. First, the cupcakes came up. They weren't bad at all- pretty sweet (tho throwing up is unpleasant no matter what it tastes like). Then a couple of hours later the Buffalo wings came up. That was baaaad. I ate some carrots just have something in my stomache, and threw them up; then I ate a little cheese and threw that up; so I ate nothing, but threw up the water I drank. Then I ate or drank nothing but tried to throw up anyway, which is horrible. Finally after a long while, I was feeling dehydrated and dizzy, so I drank some Gatoraid, because I heard your body absorbes electrolytes quickly and I figured I might absorb some before I threw it up, but I never threw it up. I still felt bad, but luckily that was all the vomiting. Now Krystal has been throwing up all day today. I had several things I really wanted and needed to do Saturday, so that was lame all around.
Gonna be a busy (and probably crap-ass) week this week.
Some of this is kind of funny (and some horrifying):
http://ipcblog.org/2010/02/10/midnight-7am-35-calls/ (it's a whole night of reports to a poison control center in Il.).
Here's a sample:
-An adult female called worried because she took 2 Aleve® for her headache and then noticed that the pills expired 5 years ago.
-An adult woman called because a battery leaked out of her personal massager and she was concerned about battery acid burns.
-An emergency room called regarding a 29 year old male patient who had chewed and swallowed a fentanyl transdermal patch in an attempt to get high. He was found unresponsive by his mother and brought in via ambulance.
-An elderly gentleman accidentally used an Efferdent® denture tablet instead of an Alka-Seltzer® tablet and drank the whole glass.
-An ER physician called about a 58 year old male who presented to the emergency room after ingesting several bottles of mouthwash to get drunk. The doctor wanted to know if there are any other ingredients in the mouthwash that could be dangerous.
-An ER called for treatment recommendations regarding a 28 year old patient with a history of chronic spray paint abuse who showed up confused and delirious. He had gold paint around his nose and mouth.
-An ER nurse called about a patient brought in by her parents, who found her unresponsive in the bathroom at 11pm. She had been at a friend’s house earlier in the evening and the friend said they were all trying out some oxycodone that they found in his grandmother’s medicine cabinet.
-A hospital called because one of their nurses had inadvertently given a patient 100 units of insulin instead of 10 units of insulin.
See- no matter how dumb some things you do are, or how bad things are going for you, you can always find something online about someone dumber or worse off than you...
