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semiotic_pirate ([personal profile] semiotic_pirate) wrote2005-01-17 04:08 pm
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I hate food poisoning!

Well folks... be glad you weren't at my house Saturday night. We ate in, had bread with mushroom pate and brie and caviar... Must have been the caviar. I am only now starting to feel better, having had symptoms on the list of "go to the hospital" without having gone to hospital. Yah, I looked, after I started to feel better, and realized if I hadn't been smart enough on my own to push fluids (and having been an EMT helped) then I might've been in some serious trouble.

Lucky for me classes start tomorrow! Heh.

Before that, part of Thursday, all day Friday and partway into Saturday LJ was down, at least for me anyways. ::sighs::

[identity profile] jandriel.livejournal.com 2005-01-17 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel your pain. I've been food-poisoned enough times to be just damned sick and tired of the whole thing.

**Take me out, botulism! Make my day!**

*he he*

Good to see you're feeling better.

How did you become an EMT? Is there a training program or do you get hired somewhere and they say "GO! Save the people! They need you, Captain Heroic!"

[identity profile] semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com 2005-01-17 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, I was trained as a combat medic for the army... and while in training took and passed the national EMT registry exam.

[identity profile] jandriel.livejournal.com 2005-01-17 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
So....it was more like, " GO! Shoot the people! They need you, Captain Heroic!"

*he he he*

I remember now that you'd posted about being in the military before. What did you think of it, in general?

[identity profile] semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com 2005-01-17 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
shoot the people!

heal the people!

duck season!

rabbit season!

food! bombs! they're all little yellow packages, how do I tell the difference?!

[identity profile] semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com 2005-01-17 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
it sucked.

I realized that I have a problem with authority figures - or at least not getting any respect and treated like an unthinking subhuman automaton. yah.

I didn't respond well to their training tactics, knew it was a mind fck, and basically just got myself through it and got out when I could.

[identity profile] blueadept.livejournal.com 2005-01-17 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad you're starting to feel better. What type of caviar was it? :)

[identity profile] semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com 2005-01-17 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
lumpfish? the black tiny stuff... salty, yum... however, I think I won't be eating any for quite some time.

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[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/rhiannon_/ 2005-01-19 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
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