Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, my second blog post on food poisoning. I'm amazed that it didn't happen sooner. Truth be told, I've had weird bouts of stomach aches throughout the RTW trip, but this was the first time that warranted the usage of Cipro, an oral antibiotic, and Imodium, an over-the-counter drug that decreases the activity of the myenteric plexus (if you have to ask what it is, look it up on wikipedia).
It all started the night before we left Australia. Like my first food poisoning episode, it couldn't have happened at a worse time - I was about to embark on a 15-day camping trip! That night I took two Imodium pills hoping that my immune system would sort things out while the pills took care of the symptoms. A week elapsed before those drugs began to wear off, but the stomach bugs were still there! So, I went on another round of Imodium and started taking Cipro - 1 every 12 hours for 72 hours. This time it worked, but my myenteric plexus only recently got back to its regularly scheduled program - 3 weeks after Australia. Either Imodium is really strong or I'm just super sensitive to it.
Here's a video of the hot mud pools in New Zealand's north island with a very descriptive (and accurate!) narration by our Flying Kiwi friend, Katie. It's pretty appropriate for this particular post, no? =)
