[jyl]

OMG. I'm here to report that I am still alive.

At 8 pm last night I made myself dinner. Kimchee from a jar, raw salmon, fried salmon skin, fried tofu, homemade sauce (soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, scallions, etc), sticky rice. Nothing I haven't eaten before, except the kimchee - that's actually something I've not eaten before, in any quantity.

After finishing, I quickly started feeling bad. Nauseous, stomach ache. I went to the bathroom and threw up. Only a little. I felt a little better, and around 10 pm I went for a 5 minute bike ride to test a new bike camera at night. Upon returning home, I vomited, a lot, in the side yard. Tottered inside. Abdomen was bloated and really painful. Tried to go to bed but kept getting up and heading for the toilet. Spent the next two hours alternately in a fetal position on the bathroom floor, throwing up, and producing, um, liquid bowel movements. Weak, profuse cold sweating, and also felt like I was breaking out in hives all over my body.

Around 1 am the pain and other stuff subsided and I went to sleep. Briefly. At 4 am I awoke with more abdominal pain, a different sort of gnawing pain. I tried to stay in bed because I was weak and dizzy. Around 6 am I got up, took an omeprazole, and ate something bland. Then back to bed.

That was the first time in many, many years that I've had a bad food reaction. Normally I can eat anything, including raw fish by the pound. But I think the kimchee did me in, or maybe the combination of kinchee and raw fish.

There is some of the kimchee and the raw fish left in the refrigerator. Maybe I should eat one or the other, to determine if my illness was caused by the kimchee or the fish? What do you think?