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That sure is a bright red colour. On a steamed lobster, that colour is ok, but when that colour is the colour of a person’s body…not so much.
That’s pretty much how I looked this afternoon, after having an allergic reaction (we think) to ginger. David made a ginger soaked ahi tuna for lunch, crusted with sesame seeds and various other marinades, but he used a LOT of ginger.
Usually, I do not have a reaction to ginger at all - I love the stuff an can eat a whole plate of it when we go to sushi - however, this was raw ginger not the pickled variety you get at a sushi restaurant.
Anyway - not 30 minutes later, I’m on the phone with a coworker and I feel my face start to flush, I get light-headed, and my head starts throbbing. Within 5 minutes, almost my entire body was red, my face was swelling up, my heart was racing, and I was started to get chills.
I wrapped up in a blanket, after taking a benadryl and two ibuprofin, and laid down on the couch shivering. According to our faulty thermometer I did not have a fever, but I was shaking as if I was.
For probably 2 hours my body continued to be bright red and puffy from all the blood at the surface, and my heart continued to race. And then it passed. I started to regain my normal skin colour, the pounding headache went away (since my heart rate was slowing down), and in general I felt much better.
But I have to say it was rather freaky having your entire body bright red and warm, while shivering underneath a cover.
Be mindful of what you eat :-).
January 12th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Honey, remember when you eat you are just a vacuum with nipples!
January 12th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Oh my.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Yeah - it wasn’t pretty. It was such a weird feeling, suddenly feeling my face get really hot, then looking at my chest to see it was bright red, then my arms, then my legs, then getting the chills.
I’m still paying the price…my intestines have been in turmoil for 24 hours.
January 12th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Hit the starvation diet like me. I should be reaching my birth weight by the end of January. LOL
January 12th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Red really isn’t your color. Glad it was only temporary.
January 12th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
No - I’ve never been a huge fan of red. Blue is good for me but that implies oxygen depravation. Green is the ultimate of all colours, but I’d hate to think what I had if my body was turning green…gangreen?
Too punny?
No. Stupid.
January 13th, 2008 at 5:49 am
“…almost my entire body was red, my face was swelling up, my heart was racing, and I was started to get chills. I wrapped up in a blanket, after taking a benadryl and two ibuprofin, and laid down on the couch shivering. According to our faulty thermometer I did not have a fever, but I was shaking as if I was.”
Hmmmm…. sounds like a familiar reaction. Are you sure you weren’t just thinking about going into to work?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Actually, you might be right. I wonder why I feel that way every Sunday night