Wednesday, September 9, 2009

El verde monstro

One of my mexicans got green tobacco sickness over the weekend. This happens when you handle wet tobacco, and the tobacco touches bare skin such as your arms. The nicotine gets in your body, and makes you sick. I got it once in high school, the day before my first cross country meet. I went to CC practice, came home and helped hand tobacco in my shorts and tennis shoes. By the time I was done, I almost fell out of the rails about 8 feet from the floor from passing out. When I got down to the ground, I nearly threw up and had to sit down for a couple of minutes. My grandpa got sick that day also. At any rate, I went home and went to bed. I managed to wake up in time the next morning to go to the meet at hillsboro, and ran a decent time for my first 5k ever. I was 17 at the time, and a robust six foot tall and about 175 pounds. Our mexican that got it sunday is about four feet ten, eighty pounds and fifty years old. We took him to urgent care when he didn't get better overnight. The doctor gave him a shot and some pills. It looks like we are going to have to be more careful about him working in the future, we can't have him getting sick all the time.

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