Reply #69: Montezuma's revenge

[MorningGlow]

I tried valiantly not to drink the water when I traveled in Mexico for about a week; I thought maybe it was residue on the hotel glasses or pitcher in the room (in Puerto Escondido--really small town on the Pacific), but later I found out it was from swimming in the ocean (questionable sewage practices in the area). My boyfriend and I were traveling by bus all over the southern part of the country, and the very day after I started spewing we had a nine-hour bus trip to Oaxaca. All I could keep down were Fritos and little sips of water.

Also chicken pox when I was 17, and a weeklong flu when I was in my 30s. There's a theory that thyroid problems are kicked into gear by a severe health issue. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it was that flu that set mine off.