Small emet victory

[chicajojobe]

Tonight I went downtown for dinner at my favorite restaurant and it was
a nice clear night so I stopped at Starbucks for a seven layer bar and
an iced tea. I was munching on them as I walked back to my room when I
passed a puddle that I'm pretty sure was *you know what*, now I can't
be 100% sure because it was getting dark and I certainly didn't want to
stop for a closer look.



Well so there I was holding my dessert in my hand while standing less
then a foot from possible v*. My first instinct was to throw away the
bar because there could be like particles in the air that were now on
my food, but I really REALLY wanted to eat it! I then realized that by
that logic I'd need to throw out the tea too since the particles could
like go down the straw. Also that they would already be inside me since
I haven't yet mastered living without breathing air.



I told myself that if it was v* it was probably from someone who had
too much to drink since it's the end of the weekend, so I ate all of
the bar and drank all of the tea. Both were delicious.



Now obviously if I come down with a stomach virus tonight I'll forever
blame it on that, but as of this moment my only regret is the amount of
sugar and calories I consumed in the form of the seven layer bar.


Edited by: chicajojobe

[mommyof3]

Yay!!! Good for you!!! What a victory

[meercat]

Wow, cool!! That is definitely a step in the right direction for you! I am proud of you! Our emet brains' play evil games on us, so IF you end up feeling N*, i'm sure it would be caused by the worrying we all tend to do. I KNOW you will be perfectly ok :-)

Did i mention i am proud of you? hehe!

BTW...now you got me hungry for one of those 7 layer bars LOL!

[hippychick]

Well done!!!!!! And if it helps at all, I always see pools of V* hell once I was next to a kid who suddenly V* and I've never gotten sick from particles or whatever so I think you will be fine. But I'm so proud that you kept eating and drinking...though I have NO idea wht a seven layer bar is...I'm intruiged!

[baden]

Awesome story, I can hardly look at it, I run and drive away if i see V

[ceinstein]

FIRST OFF, i cannot be;lieve i found this site. i can offically diagnose myself today as having emetphobia. I am 25-years-old and have had this for as long as i can remember. i am reading your "victory" and literall crying because i am laughing so hard at the fact that i would rationalize that pile of v* in the EXACT SAME WAY. i have never met anyone in my life who fears this as much as i do. i have no explanation for my fear and i am sick of answering people's questions of disbelief. i love this story because i never though i would read something that pin points EXACTLY what i have been going through for 25 years. amazing. congrats!!!!!! did you feel ok last night? i agree with someone who posted that if you had felt sick, it woudl have been nerves.

[meggy]

Hey good for you! It's nice when you can get your thinking brain to over-ride your panic brain and make decisions that are good for you! Bet that dessert tasted twice as nice as usual!


I had two similar experiences yesterday. I was time keeping at an athletics carnival. Once I saw a girl v* and once I just saw a big gross u-know-what, but I surprised myself - I was totally fine! And some sweet angel quickly ran and grabbed handfuls of sand and totally hid it until it got cleaned up - but I found that if I chose not to react then I was fine. I felt so proud, but I couldn't exactly brag about it you know! Just goes to show, fear can be unpredictable too.


Yay for us brave emets who are on the frontline!!

[angel13]

You are a champion, chica! I would have felt the same! Yum, that Starbucks stuff sounds heavenly...*drools* It must have been good, if not even a pool of v* could stand between you and it! xD


Good on ya for being so brave!