# My Barf Festival (Warning: Gross!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-barf-festival-warning-gross/458558 "2008-08-02T00:32:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-barf-festival-warning-gross/458558/1 "2008-08-02T00:32:08Z")
I have some kind of unholy conglomeration of sinusitis and a stomach bug and spent most of yesterday and this morning upchucking everything but my toenails. Yesterday morning I spewed out my coffee, aspirin, and granola bar on the side of my car. I felt like crap when I woke up, but tried to soldier on and get to work; didn’t happen. Yesterday afternoon I tried eating some “sick food” (chicken noodle soup and a blue popsicle). This mixture hung out in my tummy for about 45 minutes and then I got the terrible queasy feeling and rushed to the bathroom . . . a little late. I spewed noodles dyed windex popsicle blue all over the bathroom wall, medicine cabinet, and shelves. Nothing like cleaning up reprocessed noodles when you’re already very nauseated. Late afternoon I had to go sign papers for our new homeowner’s insurance, as it expired at midnight. Nothing like throwing up boiled egg seeped in Sprite into your insurance agent’s sink! I gave up eating after the insurance agent office spectacle and got to dry heave most of the night. I’m better today, but feel as if I’ve been punched in the stomach muscles by a Mack truck. Thank you for letting me share. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-barf-festival-warning-gross/458558/2 "2008-08-02T00:49:01Z")
Thanks for sharing, you are awesome! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-barf-festival-warning-gross/458558/3 "2008-08-02T01:44:44Z")
Where’s the puke smiley when you need him? This will have to do. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-barf-festival-warning-gross/458558/4 "2008-08-02T02:01:22Z")
Thanks for the sympathy! I ate a real meal a few hours ago and it seems like it is going to stay where it’s supposed to; what a relief. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-barf-festival-warning-gross/458558/5 "2008-08-02T03:33:15Z")
Poor baby. Thanks for the wonderful description of a (several!) technicolor yawns! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-barf-festival-warning-gross/458558/6 "2008-08-02T08:49:07Z")
Glad you’re feeling better. I hate barfing, but what I hate even worse is that feeling _before_ you barf, when your body is arguing with itself: “Gonna throw up now” “No, we’re not. We hate throwing up” “Really gonna do it, though” etc. (ad nauseum? 😛 ) On a related note: I get kidney stones chronically. Vomiting is an accompanying symptom. My first stone was when I was only 15. I went to the same hospital for them for several years. No one at that hospital ever gave me anything for nausea until one day, the doc was trying to take a medical history, and I was barfing too frequently to answer his questions. He ordered an anti-nausea med for me. I was like, “Hey, I didn’t even know there _was_ such a thing”. Yep, it had been available the whole time, and never offered until it made a _doctor’s_ life easier. :rolleyes: After that, though, I began requesting it! Hospitals around here, though, I never have to ask. They just give it to me. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-barf-festival-warning-gross/458558/7 "2008-08-02T12:54:09Z")
Barf report: day three I still have a crappy headache, but it’s much more low key. No barfs on the horizon; I’m actually drinking coffee this morning like a normal human. **New items to add to the “never can eat again” list:** Chicken noodle soup Blue popsicles Sprite Boiled egg yolk Fruit granola bar **These will join my standard barfalicious list from bygone festivals:** Nyquil Tuna fish Cherry cheesecake Tequila (self-imposed barf) ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-barf-festival-warning-gross/458558/8 "2008-08-02T12:56:38Z")
[QUOTE=norinew] Glad you’re feeling better. I hate barfing, but what I hate even worse is that feeling _before_ you barf, when your body is arguing with itself: “Gonna throw up now” “No, we’re not. We hate throwing up” “Really gonna do it, though” etc. (ad nauseum? 😛 ) [/QUOTE] Ha! This is an excellent transcript of the inner upchuck monologue! I would add: “hafta keep it down, hafta keep it down, let the medicine work” before “Really gonna do it . . .”