Acid Reflux

[poliphilo]

I woke up choking. I don't think I was close to dying but for a moment it felt like I was. Acid reflux. And the moral of the story is don't eat curry.

Ailz and I had lunch yesterday at the Cafe Lahore, which is probably the best curry house this side of Manchester. Very nice. But the lesson needs to be learned- curries do me harm and if I want to live to be 80 I must LEAVE THEM ALONE.

I'm not going to pretend this is any great hardship. Curry is possibly my favourite food, but the truth of the matter is I don't like any food all that much. In spite of tuition by experts I find the whole business of eating a bore- and the restaurant experience is particularly boring because it takes a huge chunk out of the day which could be spent doing- oh, almost anything else. Restaurants make me edgy and anxious. I hate the waiting, I hate the fact that someone is suffering the indignity of serving me. I want to read a newspaper, I want to listen to the radio, I want to watch TV, I want to shovel the stuff in as quickly as possible and get on with my life.

Comments

[morrison-maiden.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're alright...I agree with you, I feel kind of uncomfortable about the whole serving system. Even though it's a job, I feel that it's sort of condescending, asking a fellow human being to bring you some dinner rolls and condiments. Are you on any medicine for the acid reflux? I know they advertise a lot of medications for it on TV here in the States...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I'm on various things. I take pills fot lactose intolerance and there are other things I can take for indigestion. But the main thing, I think, is to avoid spicy foods. So long as I eat sensibly the problem shouldn't arise.