Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Wreathed in Joy!


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  1. Thanks, Bill and puddle. We've been wondering the same thing, but the strange bit is that the children mostly ate a different batch of food from the rest of us (brought from home) while the adults ate the excellent cuisine served by the Inn. Yet we and the children all became sick around the same time. We did all have the Inn's breakfasts, though. I kept thinking that food poisoning sets in swiftly, but apparently there's a slower kind as well. Yikes. How could we ever discover what did it, though?

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    1. I suspect it's actually viral gastroenteritis, and we shall all live through it. Currently, we're up to 10 people affected, which is 1/3 of us!

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    2. Discovering what caused food poisoning is often difficult even for official state and federal investigators.

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  2. Viral gastroenteritis is actually at least one name for food poisoning, lol! I think I'd report it to the Inn, at least. And maybe the nearest health department. Might save someone's life, since it's harder on the elderly and the littles.

    May have been a bad load of food from somewhere, or some laziness in the kitchen. Or the luck of the draw.

    Hope everyone recovers as fast as you seem to.

    AND just be glad you can throw up. Since that operation which saved my life, I no longer can. You can move me over with the horses. . . .

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    1. Yikes, Puddle, I'd forgotten about that. I hope you're very careful about what you eat!

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    2. Ah, puddle, I will never think of throwing up in quite the same way, and that is saying a LOT. It is my least liked act on the entire planet. But, yes, it does serve a purpose. What do you do if you can't?

      We have wracked our brains but cannot think of a single food that only the people who got sick ate. Mah*Sweetie had the salmon and didn't get sick and some of the children who got sick never had it. And so on. Very strange.
      I suspect it had something to do with the fact that the state had a lot of power outages just beforehand. Something may have gone amiss. I've been there 5 times and never had a problem. So I don't think it warrants calling the health department. It was a pretty mild flu thing, all things considered, and we're all just about done with it.

      But I did let the Innkeeper know about it, back on Tuesday. I've been waiting for a final tally and will update her tomorrow.

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    3. Remarkably, if you can't, you don't. You just wait it out, in this state of sweaty nausea. Gladly it's happened seldom. But I do think of the horses when it does happen.

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  3. Listener, were there any kidney beans involved in the meal? The mystery story I just finished reading last night included some interesting and scary info about kidney beans.

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