So I Just Threw Up
moultano
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Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
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<div class="IPBDescription">and this is wierd as hell.</div> So many of you will probably put this firmly in the TMI category, but this is so weird that it really needs to be put on the internet.
So, I've been feeling like **** for the last couple of days. I've had a really weird combination of feeling like I'm full, and feeling like I'm starving. The overall effect is that it felt like nothing was getting from my stomach to the rest of my digestive system. This was pretty painful and nauseating, and I've had a difficult time getting any of my work done. So tonight, things finally came to fruition. (As an aside, I have to code tonight for distributed systems class, and my away message currently reads "I just cleaned out my trash can in case I have to puke while I'm coding." Pretty hardcore if you ask me.) So after a few hours trying to write the pieces of a Java RMI scheme while bemoaning my gut, a few hours holding my gut and not keeping up the pretense of coding, and a few hours kneeling with a toilet and a garbage can as my only companions, I finally managed to throw up. This is where it gets wierd.
In amongst my half digested food, I found the remains of a whole piece of paper.
Yep, paper.
Yknow what happens when a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 is sitting out in the rain for a really long time? Looked about like that. Soggy white printer paper.
So I'm thinking, "How the **** did I swallow a piece of paper?" I mean seriously, this kind of **** doesn't just happen. I don't walk around thinking, "Man I could really go for a whole piece of paper right now." Then I remember, a week ago I had a dream in which I was standing in a walmart and eating a binder. I had a turquoise plastic binder in my hands, and I was tearing it up into little bits and eating it. I don't know if there is any connection, or if what I saw amongst my puke was even a piece of paper, but this **** is weird. I moved it around a bit with my finger, and it behaved exactly like a soggy piece of paper.
If I had to guess, I'd say it was blocking the valve from my stomach to the rest of me, and **** was just piling up on top of it.
Does this happen to people?
So, I've been feeling like **** for the last couple of days. I've had a really weird combination of feeling like I'm full, and feeling like I'm starving. The overall effect is that it felt like nothing was getting from my stomach to the rest of my digestive system. This was pretty painful and nauseating, and I've had a difficult time getting any of my work done. So tonight, things finally came to fruition. (As an aside, I have to code tonight for distributed systems class, and my away message currently reads "I just cleaned out my trash can in case I have to puke while I'm coding." Pretty hardcore if you ask me.) So after a few hours trying to write the pieces of a Java RMI scheme while bemoaning my gut, a few hours holding my gut and not keeping up the pretense of coding, and a few hours kneeling with a toilet and a garbage can as my only companions, I finally managed to throw up. This is where it gets wierd.
In amongst my half digested food, I found the remains of a whole piece of paper.
Yep, paper.
Yknow what happens when a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 is sitting out in the rain for a really long time? Looked about like that. Soggy white printer paper.
So I'm thinking, "How the **** did I swallow a piece of paper?" I mean seriously, this kind of **** doesn't just happen. I don't walk around thinking, "Man I could really go for a whole piece of paper right now." Then I remember, a week ago I had a dream in which I was standing in a walmart and eating a binder. I had a turquoise plastic binder in my hands, and I was tearing it up into little bits and eating it. I don't know if there is any connection, or if what I saw amongst my puke was even a piece of paper, but this **** is weird. I moved it around a bit with my finger, and it behaved exactly like a soggy piece of paper.
If I had to guess, I'd say it was blocking the valve from my stomach to the rest of me, and **** was just piling up on top of it.
Does this happen to people?
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Or you could've just, you know, eaten the paper in the binder?
Still, seeing how you got paper inside amazes me.
I wish I was cool enough to throw up an entire piece of paper <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
That beats me sleepwalking to turn off my alarm. I actually semi-woke-up during one of those episodes to find myself fumbling with the controls until I hit the right button. Then I immediately went full asleep and back to bed apparently...
I've puked twice in the last 9 years - once a few hours before my appendix was removed (when they were preparing to give me an X-ray...it looked a lot like acidic spit (hadn't eaten at all yet, woke up at 6 and had a really strong, dull pain in my abdomen...so no food or water in the last 18 hours when I did get to surgery)...plus it was like 2 free days of sleep, it rocked - plus I learned morphine has almost no effect on me <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> (unlike having your wisdom teeth pulled...pffft).
And then, about a year ago, after eating 3 apparently putrid beefsticks...trid throwing up 3 times (you know, how you can fake-burp <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> )...then I finally got it to come out once.
Man, what I would give for some awesome projectile vomiting...or to see some. That would be awesome. Vomiting paper rates about a 7 on my "Woot, that's cool...or something"-o'meter.
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Are you sure you didn't absentmindedly drop a piece of paper into the bin after you took out the trash? Or could one have been knocked off your desk into it... did any one else go in your room and might have put some paper in the bin?
Or maybe the paper is why you've been feeling so ill.. can't imagine how you managed to swallow it though :|
I'M MISSING MY GRAPH PAPER
For years afterwards I had stomach problems and eventually I ended up in hospital over it, they took an X-Ray of my stomach and said "Theres something covering the lining of your stomach but we can't tell what it is without surgery" as I was feeling better at the time and hated hospitals I left without having myself opened up.
Recently I've begun to wonder if those plastic wrappers were my downfall.
ya, I'd be surprized if paper lasted that long in your stomach... although printer paper is a fair bit sturdier then most papers...
Several things: Stomach acid doesn't actually do any dissolving whatsoever. Its actually pretty weak in the grand scheme of things, and is only there to kill bacteria and maintain pH. Second is that paper is made of cellulose, an undigestable (to humans) polysaccharide.
For years afterwards I had stomach problems and eventually I ended up in hospital over it, they took an X-Ray of my stomach and said "Theres something covering the lining of your stomach but we can't tell what it is without surgery" as I was feeling better at the time and hated hospitals I left without having myself opened up.
Recently I've begun to wonder if those plastic wrappers were my downfall. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
wow...
If it wernt for the potential health problems Id say thats pretty funny.
"Crappy Exterior filled with minty goodness?"
Jeez i guess.
Several things: Stomach acid doesn't actually do any dissolving whatsoever. Its actually pretty weak in the grand scheme of things, and is only there to kill bacteria and maintain pH. Second is that paper is made of cellulose, an undigestable (to humans) polysaccharide. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Erm, no, Stomach acid is pretty manky and quite strong.
This weekend i went to a house party, and drank a little too much (4tehwin!) and i ended up throwwing up(although the weird smelling salts in a bottle could have had something to do with that) anyhooo as i was saying i threw up, and didnt rinse my mouth properly, 5 minutes later i had a burning soft palate and i could feel my teeth getting slimy and gritty(Burn HCL Burn!)
Random fact Bulemics have scars on the back of their hands due to wiping their mouths with the back of their hands and not washing em properly therefore allowing the HCL to bur them. Paper, if left in HCL overnight WILL start dissolving.
So im guessing if a piece of paper was in the stomach for a few days with HCL and other food and muscle constriction and stomach churning, then it should have been dissolved, unless you have a very weak stomach pH
Im quite stumped at why the paper did not dissolve...
(this is the sickest post ive posted)
Your friend was lucky, I couldn't stop once I started.
Also it was a laundry hamper.
Seconded. Either that or someone has slipped a drug in to your food within the last week. Always prepare your own meals <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Meh. Just an idea.
Hope you solve your...problems. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I'd choke on something that big.
Wet, half digested paper doesn't cut you <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Sorry I didn't notice this until now.