Gastrointestinal Turmoil

Tuesday, 8/19/2008

Five days into the program, 2 of our teachers have fallen ill from food poisoning. The culprit was the chicken from the oozie at the fancy Lebanese restaurant that the staff was treated to yesterday. Really, it was the luck- or lack there of- of the draw because the main entrees came out in 2 sets, and it was the people who got theirs later that got sick. That could have been me! One of the sick was alternately projectile vomiting and passing out cold. She got to spend the night before her birthday in the hospital. Rest assured, it was the good hospital in Erbil, not the one that makes you MORE sick! Poor thing...I think I will make her a card: on one side, it will say “Get Well Soon!”, on the flip side it will say “Happy Birthday, Ranelle!”, and on the inside, it will say a hybrid of the two messages: “Get Birthday Soon, Ranelle!”