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- Wednesday, November 24, 2004. On this day: BBC, Wikipedia, HowTo
- The Dissentery Diet
You want to lose weight in a hurry? Forget Atkins, diet shakes, counting points, hell even exercise, go for dissentery all the way. "I lost 10-15lbs in 1 day and I owe it all to dissentery."
Okay, there's 2 things wrong with that last paragraph. First of all, I don't know that I actually had dissentery. I definitely had some kind of intestinal infection though. Second, I don't know exactly how much weight I dropped in the 1 night from when it kicked in and I went to the doctor. I know that before I came to Lao I weighed around 175-180lbs and when they weighed me at the clinic I was down to 165lbs. I probably dropped I bit of weight since I came but I know I didn't drop over 10lbs.
4 days in the hospital on IV fluids later and I'm feeling a lot better. I'm still not quite 100% but I'm pretty much there now that I can eat a full meal on a regular basis.
Needless to say, this has put a bit of a cramp on the travel plans. I still think I'll head to Thailand for a bit though because Vientiane is pretty much shut down from the summit.
# Posted 9:11 AM
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Hey, I heard that there was a couple of bombings in Vientiane.
Hope that didn't affect you, but it looks like the food there got you good. Are there any shots that you could've taken to prevent it? Man, all that sounds scary, I better go get my shots before I visit Vietnam.
# posted by tcube : November 26, 2004 4:06 PM
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