the sushi experience


so, i went to dinner tonight with my friends tim and brian. we went for sushi in palo alto. i love that town. here's the story. i've had sushi one time before without issue. that time, i was with my friends in southern california, and they ordered for me. (thanks ben & sarah!) this time. i didn't really know what, or how, to order. so, i ordered teryaki chicken, i know, i know, not sushi but it was safe. my friends got the sushi and i kinda picked off their plates. so, i grab the first thing and down it goes. so, as soon as i swallow, i feel this familiar feeling in my lips. ah, an allergic reation. fabulous. so, as to not alarm anyone, i just sat back and relaxed to see what i've done to myself. after a while, my friend tim, a paramedic, caught on and continually checked in. i don't know if it was the fish or the avacado but my lips were certainly swelling.

so, i did what i normally do, i drank really cold beverages until the swelling stopped. so, after dinner, we walked down the street, went to borders, got starbucks and then i started feeling a bit ill. my stomach was turning. it was like i swallowed a bowling ball. i don't really know what that means, but i'm sure it's a tumor. i'm a hypochondric, what do you want from me?

so, it's now two hours later and i'm still not feeling too hot. my bottom lip hurts really badly, throbbing quite a bit and feels like i've gotten clocked in the face. and my stomach has this incredible pressure like i swallowed a sponge or one of those pill things that we had as kids. you know. the ones where they look like tylenol but you drop them in water and they expand greatly and turn into a dog or a dinosaur. you know? i feel like i have a whole barnyard hanging out in there. it's not fabulous.

with a moo moo here, and a quack quack there,
katie