November: a Month for Family, Celebration and E. Coli
There are seven types of E. Coli, I’ve learned. The kind that can kill people lives in meat (well, more specifically feces-contaminated meat) and there’s even a beneficial strain.
The waterborne type isn’t usually deadly. Which is good, because I drank ever-so-much of it the week before Thanksgiving. I was
attempting to rehydrate after an evening o’ food poisoning. Turns out West Portland’s always-delicious tap water was tainted. With POO.
On the plus side, I lost about 4 pounds. And it wasn’t even that bad, nothing like actual food poisoning. There must be a way to market this.
December 9th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
oh, for sure. i’d be more than willing to endure a mild bacterial infestation to lose 4 pounds…