my friend, friday night: haha i hope this chicken is done well enough; i turned off the oven by accident partway through cooking it

me, friday night: lol okay

me, saturday night, dizzy and headachey with chills:

D:

.... This is what thermometers are for

oh no

n...o...no? No

iiiiif you haven't already, I'd consider seeing a doctor as soon as reasonably possible

Wait really? I googled salmonella poisoning and everything was all "if you suspect you have it you should be okay without a doctor unless you're elderly/immunocompromized/have been sick for more than a week"

yeah that was my understanding too... salmonella is really just a kind of food poisoning, unless it becomes complicated--like you become severely dehydrated from throwing up, etc, or it somehow escapes your intestinal system.

there's not a whole lot that a doctor can do other than tell you to just ride it out and drink a lot of fluids, if you can keep them down

i have not puked once, so i'm considering that a victory

i've been sleeping on and off since 7pm last night and i still feel dizzy, though, so idefk

the dizziness might be a little concerning, I'd try to drink more water if you can.

You might want to drink something that has added electrolytes if you can

As someone who gets dizzy even when I'm only barely dehydrated, the only thing that helps me is stuff like Gatorade

bleh, same; my blood pressure is also consistently on the low side which i'm sure doesn't help

definitely have been sipping water, and electrolytes are a good idea

overall i'm feeling better, if still kind of shitty; i'm thinking i'm going to try to make it to rehearsal today

I actually spent three days in the hospital with salmonella once, and was varying degrees of delusions the whole time, then was followed up on by a public health nurse

holy shit

yeah, it can be bad. They told me at the time that if my littlest had had the same dose of bad egg I'd had (I was fortunately making meringues, not, say, choco chip cookies where I routinely let them eat the dough, I had about the size of a seed pearl bit I licked absently off a finger) she might have died :/

jfc, that's horrifying

oh yeah, it really really was. Didn't let them touch raw cookie dough for years, or used pasteurized 'egg product' from the store. Was very paranoid

the public health nurse who followed up with me said she also had 2 elementary school age brothers who'd gotten it too, but fortunately not as severely, and she had to track them and forbid them to go back to school until they tested negative for having any of it in their system anymore

b/c it's very contagious, stays in your system for ages, and you can't trust little kids to wash their hands well enough to not pass it on and end up with a whole school infected

so, y'know, take care of yourself :/

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