I recently had a 3 day bout with food poisoning. I had lot of different things that day, but I’m pretty sure it was from Panda Express. It was certainly the sketchiest thing I ate. Now that I’ve moved to Back Bay I’m pretty close to the Prudential Center, so my girlfriend and went to try out the pru food court. It was near closing time, and every place was starting to clean up. I got orange chicken from Panda Express and my girlfriend got something from another place. It’s the only meal we got from separate places that day.

The next day I woke up with a pain in my stomach that got really bad as the day went along. I felt like I was dying, I can’t remember a worse experience in my life. Unfortunately I couldn’t go to the emergency room since my new insurance hadn’t kicked in yet. My girlfriend took me to get some medicine and after lots of water, motrin and heating pads I was finally able to get some sleep. When I woke up, the pain had subsided a little bit. I repeated the process a couple of times and I’m completely fine now.

The experience has me thinking a lot about my health. I’m the kind of guy who doesn’t like seeing a doctor, and I’ve never been really really sick. I didn’t have insurance for a while and I didn’t really do anything about it. When something that you take for granted fails everything else goes to hell. I’m very lucky that I didn’t have something serious, but one shouldn’t have to be worried about money during sickness.

So lessons learned:

1. Never go to a food court near closing time
2. Never eat from Panda Express… ever
3. Don’t play games with insurance.

Or wait, what the hell, maybe I should move to one of the MANY COUNTRIES that have universal health care.

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