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September 21, 2003
I'll show you where you can stick it...
Being sick in Japan sucks. I don't know what did it, but since Thursday my stomach has been giving me crap. No pun intended. I thought i t was from the 'Suubuta' in the workplace cafeteria... Suubuta is a Chinese dish, like vinegar and pork. I should have known better than to eat Pork... Anyway, now I've got 'geri', my stomach hurts, and I'm pretty much disabled. Yeah. Great huh? Stomach troubles so I'll go eat Mexican. Insanity. The place is in Harajuku, and is called Fonda de la... something. Check it out. Anyway, I noticed a few things you might find interesting if you've never been to Japan. Fushigi item Number 1. Taking my temperature. They use something like this to take temperature. It's a digital thermometer that you stick under your arm. 36 degree Celsius is normalish for us metric system impaired. It beeps when it's done. 
Number 2. Gotta Eat Here when we're sick we eat 'okayu'. In America we eat Chicken Noodle Soup btw. Or Twinkies. It's a rice soup kinda thing. This one has 'Umeboshi' in it, so it's really sour. 
Number 3. Medicine. When I went to the doctor they sold me a buncha medicine. More than I need I'm sure. I got cold medicine, 'geri' medicine, stomach ache medicine, the works. 
They actually offered me "おしりから入れる薬は取ったことありますか？" "Have you ever taken the type of medicine you take from your rear?" and he showed me a big white pill. No way. Hose. I says. I'm not sticking any kinda pill up my butt. Never. Let alone four times a freakin day! I'm curious to know if anyone reading this has ever heard of, or taken the stick-it-up-your-rear pill... Please comment if you have. Tell us what it's like. Cause I sure won't ever experience it. 以上。 Posted by Harvey at September 21, 2003 12:48 PMComments
hey harvey its julian..from iu..from way back when..i dont know if you remember me but im currently trapsing around nagoya japan doing the nanzan thing...say hi sometime! feel better..and really REALLY dont eat mexican while you are sick buddy. Posted by: julian on September 21, 2003 05:45 PMJulian! Of course I remember you, you're the breakdancin master! Are you tearing it up out at Nanzan? I'm not sure when I'll be in Nagoya next, but if I am, I'll be sure to look you guys up. :-) Posted by: Harvey on September 22, 2003 01:58 AMYes, I have taken those pills, there are quite normal here in Germany, especially for kids who have problems swalloing pills - like I had when I was little. There not that unpleasant. The glide in smoothly because there covered with some waxy substance. After there in you don't even feel them anymore. And on the plus side they start acting much faster, because they bypass the digestive tract, which is the major hindrance for any medication taken orally. Hope that helps. "There not that unpleasant. The glide in smoothly because there covered with some waxy substance. After there in you don't even feel them anymore." Wow... Thanks for the comment Andreas... but still... geesh. That's still scary for me. I could never take that. Eeech. Is there some kinda capliary action going on that sucks it upwards into your body after you stick it into your... you know... I even have trouble swallowing pills now, 2 or 3 tries usually, and a lot of water, but I would much rather do that than stick a pill in my... Hey, but the Japanese powdered medicine that you swallow, now that's a good idea. I can get that down much easier than pills anyway... Posted by: Harvey on September 22, 2003 10:27 AMSorry to hear that you're sick - as always though, it's extremely interesting and humorous to see Japanese culture described from an American point of view. That aside, I actually like subuta, and I can't understandwhy it caused diarrhea... lately the entire country has been getting jumpy about food poisoning. I hate to say this, but maybe it's not the food, but what's in it (and not supposed to be)? Posted by: Iku Kawachi on September 22, 2003 06:49 PMSticking medicine up your butt is not in unheard of in the U.S. I'm sure you must have heard of Preparation H -- they used to advertise it on TV all the time. How did you think it's "ingested"? >:) Posted by: mdchachi on September 22, 2003 11:52 PMI have heard of Preparation H... I didn't know it was an up your but medicine though... I'm a sheltered child... Posted by: Harvey on September 23, 2003 10:32 AMI have taken "up the butt" medication here in the U.S., a type that makes sense when you think about it. I get some pretty awful migraines, and they often come with terrible nausea. There are some great anti-nausea meds out there, but if you swallow it and barf it up 5 minutes later... so anyway, I have taken anti-nausea meds that way. They are coated in cocoa-butter and they do get into the bloodstream very quickly. Posted by: Daevad on October 13, 2003 10:15 AMthe idea being that each of us would suddenly lexapro know a lot more about the other past what they ambien look like, which is all you can really know about drugolesy a stranger when you meet them (aside from maybe lipitor cues you get about where you see them at, and prozac inferences based on how they're dressed, etc., viagra but those are only generalizations at best, and phentermine stereotypes at worst). The downsides are legion, meridia of course. First of all, I'm just not inclined tramadol to talk to strangers in the first place. Having adipex something like this where it's a weird kind of ultram talking to strangers makes it even more difficult. There is a very real possibility of coming off Posted by: vioxx on January 15, 2004 07:18 AMComment?
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