I hope I'm not ill

[figmo]

This morning at the doctor my temperature was 98.1. That's a tad on the low side, but I didn't give it any thought. I had an excellent appointment. My favorite quote from the doctor was, "You are sooooo not a candidate for gastric bypass surgery. I have several patients who are, and they don't fit in the chair you just sat in." We did discuss weight loss and diet modifications to help my gastric reflux, but she feels it's just diet and exercise. Fine by me!

Fast forward to tonight. I worked out (for a change), then came home to dinner, only the pork wasn't quite cooked enough, so put it back in the oven, then ran out and got salmon and did a major dinner paradigm change. Instead of carnitas, we had salmon with micro-steamed baby Yukon Gold potatoes, and micro-steamed collard greens with some garlic and sea salt. Just as we were about to eat I got this sudden wave of nausea. I could barely eat any of my salmon; the greens and potatoes went down a little easier, but I could hardly eat any of them. I've had the runs and I still fear I might throw up.

This isn't supposed to happen. I got my flu shot over a month ago!

Comments

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

If you are ill, that temperature wouldn't indicate it. It is actually an error made by a doctor over 50 years ago (or more) who recorded "normal temperature" at 98.5 - and it has been propagated for many years, since nobody in general bothered to question or re-test it. "Normal" actually varies between 97.something and 99 or so.

[didjiman.livejournal.com]

Ah.... uncooked pork could be dangerous. You probably just got a small case of food poisoning.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

It feels like food poisoning, but I didn't eat any of the uncooked or undercooked pork. I merely handled it with a pair of forks and, based upon that, determined the meat needed more cooking time.

Fwiw, the pork had been cooking for five hours in a slow oven. Usually I do it for seven. The two hours rendered it cooked but tough and still fatty, hence the two missing hours.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you're having stomach problems. That's all kinds of no fun.

This isn't supposed to happen. I got my flu shot over a month ago!

<pedant>

Well, the "flu shot" protects against influenza, which is primarily a respiratory virus. The "stomach flu" is an entirely different problem, caused by a different group of bacteria, against which the flu shot does precisely... nothing.

</pedant>

Sorry. Flu shots are generally safe and useful, and a good public health measure. I tend to get cranky when I hear complaints that the flu shot "didn't work" (by not doing what it wasn't supposed to), because it's only a small step from that to, "...so I won't get one again because it didn't work!"

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soon. :-(

[poltr1]

Sounds like either a stomach flu (which, as was said earlier), flu shots won't help or prevent) or food poisoning. Been there, done that. Anyway, hope you're feeling better soon.

Pork? I thought that was one of the foods you weren't supposed to eat....even though you didn't have any of it.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

I don't keep kosher. I eat just about any pork meat but ham, which I dislike immensely.