Music To Puke To
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One of the time-honored traditions in my family is that someone always winds up the hospital at Thanksgiving. The offending ailments have ranged from broken bones, sliced-off appendages, and anxiety attacks-Oh My! And this year was no different, other than that I was the lucky winner of a trip in an ambulance. And Johnny, tell them what what I won?! Food poisoning! Blech. Literally.And no, it wasn't my Mom's cooking. It started on my way home from Las Vegas on Wednesday night and by the next afternoon and I had puked every 20 minutes or so for several hours. Fortunately, Billy, my knight in shining sweatpants, found me unconscious in a puddle on my living room floor and called an ambulance. There were 8 firemen and 2 EMTs in my apartment within minutes.A day in the hospital, antibiotics, and quite a few liters of fluid later, I am mostly fine now except for a unsightly bruise on my wrist from where the IV went in and general feeling like I have been run over by a truck. (BTW, I highly recommend the emergency room at the NY Downtown Hospital. Not only were they attentive and efficient, but they have great ice chips.) What was most curious, however, was that the chorus from Kelly Clarkson's "A Moment Like This" was stuck in my head throughout the whole ordeal. It must have been inserted somewhere in the airport and could have quite possibly been the reason for my illness. I was lying on the bathroom rug all clammy and shivering and that damn song just wouldn't stop. If I hadn't felt so lousy, it would have been a bit amusing to hear "Some people wait a lifetime. For a moment like this..." as I was hanging on to the toilet bowl, puking my guts out through my nose.This isn't the first time I have been inflicted with a song whilst feverish. When I had bronchitis two years ago, "I Swear" by All-4-One was on replay in my head for about three days. I would have gouged my eardrums out if it would have helped. Is this my own personal brain damage or does this happen to anyone else?
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