Nobody Panic - How to Ride Out Food Poisoning

Episode Date: September 20, 2022

Tessa got food poisoning and would essentially like to offload her experiences while providing helpful advice on how to ride the waves. Trigger warning: there is a lot of talk of vom and other bodily fluid incidents. Also, neither of us are medical professionals.Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation at https://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanicRecorded by Ben Williams and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, I'm Carriad. I'm Sarah. And we are the Weirdo's Book Club podcast. We are doing a very special live show as part of the London Podcast Festival. The date is Thursday, 11th of September. The date is 7pm and our special guest is the brilliant Alan Davies. Tickets from kingsplace. It's coming to London. True on Saturday the 13th of September. At the London Podcast Festival. The rumours are true. Saturday the 13th of September at King's Place. Oh, that sounds like a date to me, Harriet. Welcome to the world, Stevie. Not well. Slightly manic, slightly unhinged, but showing up. This episode, and I will start with a trigger warning.

If you are emetaphobic, or if you have emetophobia, which is a fear of vomiting, or of hearing about or seeing others being sick, you will not enjoy this episode. It's about food poisoning. So good luck, go with God. Pause this one.

Pop yourself. out. I have recently emerged from my sick bed. I had food poisoning and I have suggested as a topic unplanned, of course, that is how to ride out food poisoning. Because it's not just that you've had it once and you're like, well, this was new. It's, well, as Tessa said this morning, just so you know, I've had my annual food poisoning and so I'm feeling wild. It's like, yeah, It is yearly. Who's to say why? Yeah, I did.

I texted her to say, just to alert you, feeling quite mad, but very present in body and mind. And I kept using capitals inexplicably. I said, I am powered up and ready, just letting you know where the energy is at. Before we get in, get in, what's the most adult thing you've done this week, Tessa? I'm up, I'm dressed, I've arrived. That is enough actually. That's enough today. I honestly, when I put on a full outfit, I was like, well, actually, wow, I said to myself

as I left the house this morning and I got on my bus and I arrived on time. And even on day to day, that's actually quite a surprise. So this morning to have done it is, I mean, I have been awake since 5 a.m. So I think that's why. Because I wasn't, I was just like, well, come on. I was like waiting to leave. Yeah, she got bored. Yeah, she got bored at home.

and I couldn't say there a moment longer and yeah I mean I once showed up to meet you Stevie wearing a dress and trousers do you remember that and it wasn't 2004

there was not a fashion of a fashionable country It was fairly recent And I was and you were like What's this then? I was like it's cold So I just put more layers on More items of flavour

So to be like dressed I would say You look very well put together I'm actually quite put together I'm actually quite put together I'm out of the house That is that is a number of an adult thing for me. Thank you. I feel pretty good about it. And Stevie. What have you

got for us today? So you may remember our incredibly, and if you didn't listen, I would urge you to go back and listen, are incredibly scientific, helpful, densely packed advice bonanza about how to drink water, where Tessa explained essentially just what drinking water was quite a while. I'm sorry, it was good advice. I cried laughing. It was very fun. And I was very disparagingly saying, no, I was saying that one of the tips was get you like a water bottle that could help you. So for example, there are lots

of like ridiculous ones. You're like Bluetooth and like you got speakers in them and all this kind of crazy stuff. But then there was one that I sort of Googled and I was like well the most simple one is when it's got like the time down the side. It's a big boy. It's got the time down the side. It's like 8am, 9am, 10am

and you're supposed to refill it at 1 and then you go back to the top 2pm, 3pm, 4pm right down to 7. The things that was slightly tricky about it is it had little slogans. So it would be like 8 a.m. Get started. 9m. hydrate yourself. It even said keep chugging at one point. So I use this as like a kind of... What does it say at the end? It says, well done. Refill. It never stopped. What's that man in, what's that man who has to push the big rock?

Cisivis. And that listeners is why you join in. Why, I know you all follow just to hear Stevie so quick on the mythology. She didn't miss a beat. And all I presented her with was the man with the big rock. And there she was. Quick as a flash. Only because one of these slogans is, this is not, Cissa Fizz not.

So I, Google image searched this because Tessa was intent on saying that, like, that you shouldn't get one of these. And I understand it's different strokes for different folks, different bottles for different wattles. However, my sister moved abroad. and she had a lot of stuff in her house and she didn't want

and she'd been sent a million of these bottles and she was like, yeah, do you want one of these? I'd no longer, I'd left my reusable bottle on the train as I do weekly. And so it's time for my weekly turnover. Time to refill. I can I express to you how just knowing that the times are there

I don't stick to the times. Well, no, it's just knowing you are there. 1pm. I'm on 1pm. It's 1221. It's 1221. I'm ahead of schedule, but I did drink most of that.

in the last half hour. It doesn't matter, Stevie. You did it. Don't disparage yourself. And you're on, what is it on? 1pm, yeah. And so I'm going to refill it. It says, well done.

And then we're going to refill it. And then we're swinging on by, start again at 2pm. Get started. That's my adult thing. So, hello. Food poisoning. It's me. Before we dive in, because I don't want to do this halfway through when we're right,

because when we're right in the absolute midst of one of your banging anecdotes about shitting yourself. And we know there are many. just off the bat if any of these things happen you should go to a doctor and seek medical attention right

um okay frequent episodes of vomiting and complete inability to keep any liquids down bloody vomit of stools diarrhea for more than three days extreme pain

severe abdominal cramping which I would say sort of is what food poisoning is so quite difficult but let's say you know you know when it gets so much you can't even see you haven't that much of a time an oral temperature higher than 100.4 Fahrenheit, 38 degrees C. Signs or symptoms of dehydration, excessive thirst, dry mouth, no urination, severe weakness, dizziness or lightheadedness.

And finally, neurological symptoms like blurred vision, extreme muscle weakness and tingling in the arms. So if you have those, if you've got any of those now, just go to the doctor. just go to the doctor and seek immediate medical attention. However, food poisoning, sometimes you can feel like that, especially I think frequent episodes of vomiting and inability to keep liquids down. How does that...

I would say the three-day thing is the main thing that shifts this over from being a stress-rated or I've eaten the father beans or something's gone awry here that needs to come up with my body. I've eaten a bad egg. I've eaten a bad egg to this is an... emergent. This is a much more serious, more long-term problem. Okay. So it's the time thing. And so I would say, and this, if you're going through it, you'll be like, no, no, no, that is too

long. I would say from the moment you're like, uh-oh, from that moment, till the moment you go, oh, absolutely fine. Does anyone want to watch Ozark? Which is what happened to me. I got up. Because suddenly it is 24 hours. 24 hours, right. And when you're in the midst of it, you're thinking, are you fucking kidding me? 24 hours of this but it comes on fast and it goes fast and when it does go your whole body is just like we're good now

right so yeah so 24 so if it's been going but once you cross over that you need to go to go to the doctor and definitely the three days of shitting yourself you're like there's nothing else in there to shit out you know so like that's when you start to be like

this has gone on too long now and the moment there's blood anywhere at any point at any point even if this is the first thing was blood off you go out of here. I was coughing up blood once many years ago. Oh, God. So casually. I mean, that is okay, right? No.

I know, yeah, I know. What a surprise. And I eventually did go to the hospital and had to be x-rayed for tuberculosis. Yes. Yes, well, quite. And I was like, tuberculosis. Tobacolitis? I'm not well. But you're right. I have lost my ability to. TV. Sure, but I was like,

did we not eradicate that in the Middle Ages? I thought only Badgers had it. Exactly. So when they were like, we're moving you to the emergency tuberculosis unit, I was like, oh my God. Anyway, I was absolutely fine. But they were so cross with me. They were like, what do you mean?

How long have you been coughing up blood? And I was like, I didn't want to be a bother. And they were like, Jesus Christ. That's quite an extreme not wanting to be a bother. You're literally coughing blood up. I was like, bit of blood. Because that's the thing, you are like, if it had been like hacked, massive globules of the stuff, maybe I would have been more, but it's just a bit.

And then you, then you do get in this thing of being like, oh, it's just a bit. Or like, that's like my thing. Like, you know, Tessa, who coughs of blood. It's her vibe. You know, Tesset. Coughing up blood. So they were so angry with me. And I just, I passed that anger onto you that, because the scenario is just, they say, you

haven't got tuberculosis. And they send you home. And we are incredible. lucky and I speak to the people of the United Kingdom. My people and subjects. To say we're incredibly lucky to live in a country where our health service is free at the point of use. So like, you know, go.

That's the food poisoning problem. I always have a gut that is so weak. She be bubbling. She'd be bubbling. It's weak. I'm gluten intolerant. I've got IBS. I've got all kinds of things.

It's stress related. I've got no villi in my small intestine. Blah, blah. Blah. You're classic. You're classic white woman, you know. I like true crime and I've got no gut, you know. Anyways, I have a lot of problems anyway.

And truth be told, I had been fucking about. I love how you blamed the mushrooms when you've been eating things that you're fully intolerant to. Well, because I do know that when I eat the things I'm intolerant to, it is, that's why I call it my annual food poisoning because I'm not very often sick. When I feel the heat or the beginning of it or anything like that, I do feel like a NASA astronaut that has this like laser focus, just like, this is the situation now.

We need to find a toilet, keep calm. You can't run. If you run, the motion will make your shit yourself, etc, etc. Right. And then, okay, but what also hasn't happened to me and I touch wood here of late is, do you think that people would like a public shitting story? Yeah, I think they would like it. Yeah, well, if you wouldn't skip ahead.

Imagine being like, that'll be the point I skip ahead. I've drawn this like, yeah, I can take all this. Oh, no. I'll skip ahead now, which obviously is going to be worse if you skip ahead. Okay, so many years ago, I went to stay with a friend at university, and it was not my university, and we were out on the D floor. Does that mean you were having sex? That was also totally irrelevant.

Okay. I was so, sorry, I don't know why. What number door was. Sorry, sorry, the dance floor. Okay. Sorry. I genuinely thought you were like, her room was on the floor day? That's literally where I don't do.

But honestly, it might as well have been. Okay, so we go out for this night out and then she, and I did know lots of people and it was all fine. And then she's like, I'm going to sleep with this boy now. And I'm like, fantastic, God bless you. So he's like, here are my keys. And we'd be, I knew her she lived and everything. And she was like, take yourself home. And I was like, wonderful.

So about 3 a.m. home and what she has given me is of course the key to D floor and the key to her room but not the key to actually get into the college building and because it's 3 a.m. it has been locked and I'm like okay well somebody will come past in a while or something and go to a very nice university it had porters and things and like I was like someone's coming past here and it wasn't that cold and I wasn't I wasn't stressed and I was like I'll just sit on it's a beautiful night I'm pleasantly drunk I'm admiring the stars and then during this I thought and then the heat started and I was like, oh no.

Oh, no. And I was like, okay, I think I've got about a minute. Oh, it's so cruel. It's so cruel. And I was like, it'll be so unfair if I've waited all this time for someone to come past. And the moment they do is this. It's now. But I was like, okay, right, I said to myself, okay, what we're going to do is we're going to get in that bush.

And we're going to go into the bush in the strawberries and we're going to just deal with this situation. and I did. Why am I telling the people this? I don't know. It was because of how to ride through food poisoning and we're just talking about that time you shat in a bush. That's essentially what's happened.

But look, it's fine. We're going to get to it. And I think to be honest, this is part of how to ride through food poisoning. Just listen to someone else who's had a way worse time. I think it's like, you're not alone, you're not alone. And also I do you find that once you start,

once you open this door, people are like, let me tell you. Let me tell you what happened to me. Okay, I did it in the shrubbery bush. Nobody came past. Great. I waited for a little while longer and then someone duly did and I got into the room and I was like, oh, it's solved. Solved jeopardy free.

I've dealt with it. Wonderful. And the following morning, I left quite early from her room and a number of people stood around it. No. And one of them said. Oh my God. It must have been the most enormous badger. Oh, okay, great.

Really great. That badger was very ill. Very ill. God. Anormous badger. Oh, dear. Oh, God. So you're not allowed.

Anyway, so this is why I'm like, the shitting all the time. The vomiting once a year. So last night at 5 a.m., I was like, oh, Christ. Oh, God. And I managed to get myself to the bathroom and then was extremely sick.

And then the horrible thing about when you're sometimes a bit unwell and then the thing about the food poisoning is like sometimes you're sick and then after you're sick is like immediately feel better. That's a lovely release. It's a huge release. But the thing about food poisoning is like there's no release. Oh no. There's no good feeling afterwards.

It just like keeps coming and coming and like it's just, it never ends. And then something I sometimes do is take all my clothes off and get in the bath, the empty bathtub and then pretend I'm going cold turkey in prison. that's a good way to write it. So that's an option for riding it out. Yeah. And just accepting like, now that it's begun,

it is going to end. Yes. Like we've started this roller coaster now and it is going to end, I swear to God, because there is this feelings of being like, I live here, this is it.

Well, the one time I had it, I did think, I honestly was like, I'm dying, I think I'm dying because I've never had it before. So I was like,

I think it's something, you know, and it was only when, yeah, it's very helpful to think back and go, because there are certain foods and stuff like that,

that will, that can be, cause it. There are certain things you could eat, like certain things that when you Google it, it was like, oh yes, well, if it was going to be something, I must, that had egg in it, well, it must be like salmella or whatever. And I thought I was dying and I was, my then boyfriend's flat. And I was, yeah, he then reminded me that I'd eaten like a frozen gone off keesh. Like, that's probably that, isn't it? Like, yeah, it was just, it would not stop. But that was very helpful because I think the, the most frightening thing is to be like,

like something horrific is happening and it could be death. Yeah. It is not. It's not. It's just that everything in your body is trying to leave at once, which is obviously a horrendous feeling, but you are not dying and this is going to pass. And just everything in your body needs to leave.

Now everyone's just like, there people in there are like, clear the decks, just everything out. And that's why we blame the thing that comes out first. That's just the last thing in there when they were like, we can't take anyone else, get out. Yes. And then everything is going to come out the other end.

it's going to start and it's going to just, it's going to be eventually just liquid and then there's just going to be so much just pure liquid leaving. Right. Oh, God. When you're in the midst of these things, is it like, do you have little breaks in between?

You've got, oh yes, you've got plenty of breaks. That's a horrible thing. It would be almost nicer if it just, it lasted and it was incredibly intense and it just lasted. But it doesn't. It's like waves of it. And then you think like, oh, am I going to be okay? and then another wave comes

and those waves can be like hours between each other. Right. So like, and then it's a sort of like get yourself back into bed and just like... Liquids drinking water. Get the liquids into you. I keep a lucid in the house for exactly this situation. And so I managed to get myself to my lucasade store.

There's something very nice about a lucasade because it's what I may be, if you were a kid in the 90s, it was what you got when you were allowed home from school because you weren't well. And you watched daytime television and drank a lucasade. So it feels very comforting,

but it's also, even if you don't have any nostalgia attached to it, it's a lovely thing for, like, the electrolytes, the sugar, the stuff, like it's just a good energy drink to get in you because you are losing so much water and so much salt

and so much of everything. It's like rehydration. Rehydration is so good. Like, that's another thing. You can get them in little pill forms that, like, almost like, what they're called aspirin, you know? Or you can do the sachets and,

yeah, they've got a slightly weird taste, haven't they? Yeah, they do. do, but you know, your body is losing. Come on, look after yourself as best you can. And producer Naomi, when I came in this morning, I was telling all about it. And I was saying the main thing is that, like,

when you're a kid, you were sort of sick all the time. Like, you were just constantly like, I'm sick, I've broken something, I've fallen off this. Yeah. I've got tummy ache. My knees fallen off, etc., etc. And you sort of went in, you were sick, and then you just went into your parents' room and were like,

I've been sick. You, you now. Yeah, you fix this. And now I relinquish all control. I relinquish all control. Whereas the very tough thing about being a grown-up is that you're in this extremely vulnerable position, often with no close on.

You know, and you can't relinquish that control because you have to also care for yourself and you have to be the carer and the patient at the same time. And it feels like so, when you have built a life of being like, I'm an adult, I'm in control, I pay the bills, I do everything. So they're like, I'm naked on the bathroom floor. And I'm shathele over myself. I'm not on myself.

You know, it's like, it's really. very, very hard to be like, oh, who's this? And if you live with a partner, it's very hard and very easy to be like, don't come in here. I mean, I barricade the door. Barricade the door to be like, I can't have you, I cannot see this through your eyes. The stress is too much without having to see me, yeah. And then be like, so when it was once, it was your parents who lived, now you have to clean up your own sick, you know, it's all just too much. And so it is a lot to, it's a lot. And I know, it's weirdly easy, I think, being with a friend who has sort of seen you you're worst and you're, there's something less of that, something about that relationship

with a partner that even though you've been through so much together that's still like, but I still want you to think so well of me. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, I guess so. The shadow's definitely seen some nude gollums thing, you know. The shadow's definitely seen some nude golin. No, I know, but it's so vulnerable, isn't it, in that moment, being like, don't come in, don't come in.

Oh my God, yeah. I mean, remember when I, my adult thing was like, I blocked the toilet. Yeah. I basically like, I wouldn't let him come in the house. Yeah, I'll divorce you if you come in this house. It's a sit outside. Yeah. Like, for a day.

You cannot see what has become. Yeah, you can't see what could happen with me. It's the thing. But I think now that's happened, I think if I had food poisoning, I think I would definitely still try to not let him see. But I think there would be less fear because he's seen the worst.

Yeah. Which was the, yeah, when I blocked the toilet. Do you see it? I told him not to. And then I ran out to get something. and he was like, well, I had to try, I had to do this. And I was like, and I didn't speak to him for like an hour. And then he was like, I think you should get over this.

Yeah, okay, sorry. I was so angry. Yeah, he did see it. And I told him to not go in. He tried to help. That's a huge betrayal to you ask me. That's what I said. Divorce.

I think I was crying and I said, you've betrayed me. He was like, I've just seen a poo. I don't care. So that was the end of that. May I ask, do you follow? or have you tried the brat diet when you've got food poisoning? Please. Which is, it stands for, remember, it's a healthy, a nice, a fun acronym.

And it works for food poisoning, stomach flu or just any sort of stomach ache. Bananas, all plain, by the way. Bananas, rice, apple sauce, toast. Toast, not for you. But, so plain white rice, bananas and apple sauce might have worked for you, Tessa. Because they are... I can't have apples, unfortunately. Wow.

I know what. I know. Rice. Just plain rice. I can't have plain rice. I wonder if you can just pop a bit of soy. Nope. Soy sauce has got gluten in it.

Can't do that. Just thinking about the blandest. No, you mustn't pop anything on it really. Yeah. Again, that's my issue. Yes, I remember this because when I did the quiche thing, then like the, and I threw up a keesh, then that evening I was so, like, you just feel like you've been through so much. I ordered a curry.

That was the worst thing. Yeah, that's exactly it. You definitely, when you do resurface or even when you're like almost out of the woods, you're like, I've been through so much. I need now to be with me. A whole chili. Yeah, and you do order a curry. Like a madman.

And then it's the worst. And then, so that's it. You just got to accept that for several days afterwards, it needs to be this extremely bland. Bland, bland, bland, bland, bland, bland. Yes. Bananas, rice, apple sauce, toast, brat. No butter. are particularly good because of their blandness

and they're very easy to digest, to digest. Yeah, you've got to remember that your body is working overtime and it's like, please give us something normal. Yeah. An excellent thing is an ice lolly, like a calipo or something like that. Oh, very nice. I wasn't well stocked up enough to have an ice lolly in the house for myself. But I do know they are good.

Like it's cooling, it's just, it's nothing, it's basically liquid. And because it can feel not very pleasant to constantly be drinking water. You don't feel like, You don't feel... The horrible taste in your mouth. There's so much I taste your mouth. And you don't feel very... You don't feel that, like...

You know when you wake up in the night sometimes and you've been out drinking and then you wake up and you remember that you've put a glass by your bed and you're like, God bless me. And then down the whole thing. It's almost the opposite of that. You start, you just drink it in this like, ugh. Like, I know this is good for me.

Like, little... Well, when you've been sick a lot, because your mouth is quite acid, water tastes sweet sometimes. And that makes me... When I've been sick, not with food poisoning, but when I've tried to do, drink water, it's how sweet the water taste actually makes me throw up again because it's so

gross. But squash and juice and like let like things are, you can have a bit of that. Have a bit of that. The sugar is absolutely fine. Get a bit of that and get a nice ice. Get a calipo down you if you can. What do you do in those periods between waves? I lie on the bed in the rat presenting sexual position. It's called laudosis and it is how a rat. presents that they are ready for intercourse. Is that... Other mammals do it as well.

Do an example? Describe it? Hands and knees. Head on the bed. Right. But in the air. Oh, yeah. I understand that.

Yeah. Dogs do it as well. Yeah. It's also how often you find a baby sleeping. Yeah. Like, it's just loads of animals, loads of people. And also it's just a very pleasant thing to have your nothing on your stomach and your stomach just hanging.

Hanging down. Hanging down. Because no matter what side you roll, if you're on one side and then you roll over to the other side, that is often the Kickstarter for you have to go again. Motion. Motion and like twisting over is often. Because you ever find in bed sometimes you roll over and then you just fart. Is that a thing that happens? I don't think so, but I don't know.

That's not even anecdotal. That is actually scientifically correct. Great. No, I'm sorry. I'm asleep. I'm sorry that, oh, you're asleep. Maybe. or maybe I just haven't noticed. I'm sure I do, but I just don't think.

But often if that is ringing true for you at home, if anyone is still left, because I imagine we've had a large drop-off rate at this episode, that is literally your gut turning over and then things releasing. So that is, obviously, if you're rolling around, so it's just nice to, like, lie and then you can fall asleep in that position. But also it, like, releases everything, and so you can start, I don't know, things, it just feels very,

nothing feels pleasant, but it feels the most unpleasant. no, it feels the least unpleasant of all the options. Right. And then you can't even watch, the horrible thing is you can't even watch like a good bit of doctors or whatever on time telling. Do you listen to podcasts? You can a bit, but you're not really, you're not really focused. You're in and out, yeah. You're in and out.

I would say, yeah, get the, get a radio following or something. So you want, like, you get a bit insomniac-y, like, mad, not mad thoughts, but just, like, thinking things over and over again on a, on a, cycle. I was just on a mattress on the floor and I was thinking how I was going to build a bed out of bits of wood and then I halfway I was like I've gone absolutely insane here. What am I thinking about this? And I've been thinking about it for like four hours straight. So I was like so, so some, a little gentle distraction but you probably, and that's the thing like you probably can't really take in the telly or the stuff. And you've got to cancel everything for the next 24 hours. Yeah, just don't even don't even don't even, don't even try baby. And also, but the nice thing is often when

you are a bit sick or a bit of a cold or a bit, we're very good at being like, oh, I'll power through and I'll just show up, I'm well. This is something where you're just like, absolutely no fucking way. I'm out. I'm down. I'm nude. I'm nude lay like a baby on the bed. Yeah. I'm out of the game. And just let your body recover. And then it feels just so wasted because you're like, I wasted this entire day. No, but you did, at the whole point, you didn't waste it. Oh, Steve. Your body had so much to do. No, I know. I need to build that bed. Of course. But then, yeah, but you can't, you're so violently ill when you've got food pulls

and you can't blame yourself. You know, don't blame the mushrooms. Don't blame yourself. No, and don't blame your body for just taking the time to do it, to do what it needs to do. And except that like part of the sick feeling is your body being like, if you put anything else in here. Yeah. So part of the nausea is your body being like, stopping the food.

Yeah. You could eat and it would be good to it, but like, don't you fucking dare. Don't you dare. You've got to listen to your body. We've got too much on our plate here. Which is why it's the brat diet of like, bland, bland, bland, bland, bland. Yeah. You don't have to go in with that early.

That's just for when it's the waves have started. It's earlier on it'll be irrelevant. You would rather die than eat anything. Yeah. Like, there's no way. Even the thought of a food is absolutely abhorrent. And then when you start to be like, come on. Don't order a curry.

Don't order a curry. Or a pizza or any. You've got to go bland and just have like some. Toast. You can maybe try some butter to see what I have it. That's fine. But like you've got to do you very, very bland. Don't get the dairy in there.

Your body can't take it. Well, look, how helpful was that, do we think? I think quite helpful. Ginger beer, very, very good. Ginger is excellent. Ginger is very good. A bit of lemon, anything that's, yeah. Tea, mint tea, all those things.

Milk tea. Get the dairy out of there for heaven. Yeah, don't drink. But yeah, minty tea, water, flavored water of all varieties. And it's just time. and don't let the chaos thoughts of like, I die here come for you. Don't you panic. This is going to pass. And the horrible thing is it often comes on very fast and it will leave very fast as well.

And then you'll just have it like, oh, I'm up and about. And possibly there'll be a surprise extra wave after you've got up and about. Sure. Possibly. Possibly. But then, and then you are okay. And then today, like, I've had nil by mouth so far. And I'm going to order a curry.

And now I'm listening to my own advice. And I'm like, no, no, no, let's be bland. Have a gentle, bland thing, a gentle bland thing for you. Yeah. Oh. Yeah, sorry. Yeah. Not an apple.

Not enough for Tessa. I know. Imagine me intolerant to apples. Yeah, it's a funny. And also, like, if you are in the midst of it right now, God bless you, good luck. Hang in there. This is going to pass. You'll think, I'll never eat again.

You're like, well, this is robbed from me, my dignity, my health, but also my passion for food. You're like, I will never enjoy another meal. May I tell you, I'm barely five hours out and I'm already Jones in for a curry. You know what I mean? There we go. That's so helpful. Your passion, your joy, your food will return. You know, it'll all come back.

And as with any crisis or, you know, physical, mental, all of those things, it's so quick to be like, this is it forever. But it isn't, it isn't, it isn't. And just ride it out as best you can. You're doing fantastic. And if it goes on for 24 hours, go and see... And then once you tick over to 25 hours, it's straight to A&E for you, champ. Straight to really.

But you can do it. Do not panic. I tell you a story about a friend being sick on the train. See us out with a friend being sick on the train. Do messages at Nobody Panicpod. Nobody Panicpodcast.g.g.com. If you have any episode suggestions. Tessa, take it away.

It goes home. The uh-oh onset happened to her on an extremely long, extremely delayed train during a heat, wave. Very cramped, very full, couldn't get out to get to the bathroom. I really feel this. Should I not even tell it? No, no, I want to know.

Come on. No. Do it. She just like got herself and just like, she's very upright, very sweaty and very like, this two shall pass. I'm in control. This will not happen. When to be sick, like when it was like, I'll just keep in my mouth shut and nothing

is coming out. When to be sick, held her mouth so close so tightly. It came out either side of her mouth. Yeah, you've got to get a bag and you've just got to do it. It's coming out. It's coming out. So if you are somewhere public, oh, my friend, I'm so sorry. But yeah, get a bag.

Get a bag. Be taking your own bag at this point. A hat. A hood. A hood. Like when you put all the pegs that time in your hood, turn your hood around, vomit it. Perfect. Then get rid of it.

Or take your coat off, vomit it, and then put it up like a little dick turpin knapsack. Perfect. Yeah. I've been sick. public a lot. A dick-up in knapsack? Yeah. Once I threw up a grape on a train and just put it in my pocket.

Yeah, that's just a grape coming up. No, that was not food poisoning, no, no, no. Yeah, just the grape. I thought it'd be more. But anyway, that's not really part of it. Was it clearly a grape? Why did you swallow the grape? whole like a bo-o-constrainer. The other time I was sick, last year, threw up an entire

sausage. No. Yeah. It was intact. That implies I'm just swallowing food like tablets. That is the worst part about seeing it coming back up. It's been like, that is, that is identifiably a meal. Yeah. Did I not chew anything here? And then you are like, oh, for goodness sake, I've got to take care of myself. I've got to take care of myself. Take care of yourself, everybody. Take care of yourselves, everyone. I can't imagine that anyone made it to the end. Me neither, but goodbye, Tessa. Goodbye, Stevie. See you next week.

Bye. Bye.