Wow Eve , that sucks. I hope you feel better ASAP.
I’ve been there. The last time was when I was working for a university library. It was “staff appreciation” day. Which meant a box lunch under a tent. A lame box lunch.
It consisted of a sandwich, a tiny condiment cup of fruit salad, and a cookie. The cookie was by far the best part. The sandwich was a piece of dessicated chicken breast, half a leaf of lettuce, and a paper-thin slice of tomato. The vegetarian option was the same sandwich minus the chicken. (I am not kidding, there is no exaggeration or hyperbole in the previous statement.) Oh, and a packet of dijonnaise, the unholy mixture mustard and mayo.
I was poor that week, so I decided “Hey, free lunch. What’s the worst that could happen?” What I didn’t know was that the lunches had sat outside, unrefrigerated, all morning. In July. Ugh. So I got a nasty case of food poisoning out of it. And the food wasn’t even good going down, before I started doing my patented Linda Blair-but-from-both-ends imitation.
So I feel for ya, Eve .