Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Recuperating - Take II

Well, believe it or not, it happened again. Tony has contracted food poisoning. This time it isn't as bad as it was when he landed in the hospital for a week. We know the source of where it came from and we're not happy. We had lunch at a popular expat restaurant and several hours later, he was complaining about stomach cramps and a low grade fever. I kept telling him that he needed to go to the hospital. Nope. He won't go because he's stubborn. One day later, he was still running a fever and is doubled over in pain and he still refused to go.

That was until I used my reasoning with him. I told him if he got ill again and had to spend another week in the hospital, it would greatly inhibit my ability to leave this country. If I can't leave this country, I was going to kill him. The choices were either I kill him or the food poisoning would. I won. It has been confirmed that he has food poisoning and will take several days to recover. Antibiotics together with a chalky tasting powder to help with the dehydration and oh yeah, percocet for the pain. He'll recover just in time for us to wave farewell to Shanghai.