Norovirus is a bastard
Rakky's story below reminded me of this. I had norovirus last year, one night when I was staying in a hotel.

Because of the layout of the bathroom, I couldn't reach both the sink and the toilet at the same time, but at one point I knew I was about to emit from both ends simultaneously. So I had a choice to make.

It was made for me, as I started throwing up. My head was closer to the sink than my arse was to the toilet, so I ended up squirting a bit of liquid shit on the floor. And some of it ran down my leg. Fortunately I was undressed so didn't make a mess of any clothes, but I did have to clean up the floor and myself.

Eventually, after several visits to the bathroom, the stuff coming from one end looked and smelt exactly like that from the other end, so I knew I'd pretty much emptied out my GI tract.

I didn't eat for another two days. But there was one beneficial side effect - because it took so long to refill my guts, I didn't have another shit for several days thereafter, which gave the haemorrhoids a bit of a rest!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 8 Jan 2010, 15:21, Reply)