So it turns out I have a shell-fish allergy! It was the girlfriends birthday on Thursday so I took her out for a meal to a new restaurant on the Friday night. I decided to try Scallops for my starter (Only because I saw them being cooked on some TV program about 30 minutes before we left the house and they looked great). Scallops with bacon on a mixed leaf salad - It was beautiful. Got a steak diane for my main and swilled it all down with a couple of bottles of white wine. We headed from the restaurant into a neighbouring village for a few drinks. Before we got there I had started to feel very chesty and found it fairly difficult to breathe. Kelly (the g/f) pointed out that my eyes looked very puffy and my ears were swollen. We diverted the taxi to the nearest hospital! On arrival I was rushed straight into an emergency ward where I had my stomach pumped and was filled with all sorts of different drugs. I slept most of the day on Saturday and was released from hospital on Sunday morning. Very strange weekend! After recent events I really think Mr G Reaper is following me around trying his best to get me to do a duet with Elvis on the karaoke machine in the sky. The point of this tale, apart from giving you all a chuckle, is to let the people who may have been waiting on a PM reply or a payment/item to be sent from me why there has been a delay (all sorted now). 23 years and thats the first time I have even contemplated eating shell-fish. Now I know why...... :icon_bigg
I am glad that you are ok now I myself have never tried shell fish, after reading this I think I probably never will
"Hold the sea-food platter!" I once ate a dodgy muscle at a now defunct restaurant in the UK. It was a French chain. I just knew as soon as I ate this particular piece of sea litter that I shouldn't have. All the rest were soft, this one went 'crunch' which indicated that the damn thing was contaminated. Unlike you, I had no allergy - you are pretty damned lucky! Those things can kill you. Like you however, I was as sick as a seadog! It was meant to have been a celebration meal with my the girlfriend. Instead of passing the end of University off with fly colours, I spent it passing stomach content into her toilet bowl. Ewww! So, welcome back from death's grip! I know of the other 'near death' experience recently. You ever seen "Final Destination" mate? Not wishing to freak you out......... ;-)
Hmmm there are two things, I try to ignore and stay the fuck away from, and that is cocoa and some kind of C vitamin connection (believe me having the cocoa allergy is something I would say is good, since cocoa in the long run is not great for my size). But the C vitamin connection allergy is a bit harder to figure out, since I don´t know it is citric acid, or ascorbin acid or the vitamin itself, and that vitamin connection is hard not to find in any soft drink.
