In Reply to: The Real Thing posted by Vicki M on Friday, 11. March 2005 at 01:50 Bali Time:
It's water off a duck's back darling - I HAVE had that comment thrown at me more than once in the past 5 weeks from family & friends who heard what happened to the 2 of us.It was a case of taking the good with the bad - we'd only been away 4 weeks & we'll be back again so it hasn't deterred us.
The worse thing- well the funniest to me anyway was our daughter who doesn't normally live at home house sat for the 3 weeks we were away.Picture this - takes an hour for us to get out of the airport,he goes several times there - then picked up by his parents who live 5 minutes from the airport - goes again at their place,eventually get home & my other half charges into the house making a beeline for the ensuite.Guess what he finds - NO loo paper so he screams out,where in the hell ,bleet bleet -----.I ask darling daughter what about loo paper,she says Mum it was fine YOU left us plenty I didn't have to buy any.We had only 1 roll of loo paper left in the whole house when we have 3 toilets & there was none in the ensuite where my dear husband was. All I will add is he was NOT happy.
Seriously though we have in the past done yakult,acidophilus bifidus tablets,concentrate rasberry cordial the whole bit as preventitives & including being into Norrit tablets at the 1st sign of "the sqirts " as Cliff so eloquently phrases it ! We have never had any serious problems in all these years until last trip.
After what we went through last time there is no way in hell IF I suspect me or mine have true BB that we will stuff around.Once you have had it you sure will know the difference .It will be straight onto anti-biotics for my family because it was the only thing that worked for us.Seriously until this trip I would never have said this.If you check the archives & my previous posts you will see I was previously a great believer in using Norrit charcoal tablets BUT never again NOT if you have full blown BB.All I'd like to add is there sure is a hell of difference between a bit of a rumbly tummy & BB.IF you are in serious pain or having the sweats,chills,dizzy,nauseous & doubled up in pain - get to a Doctor or chemist ASAP because in my opinion Norrit will NOT fix it & you will continue to suffer & I DO mean suffer.Well Norrit did not work for me & I was kept on giving it a go for 3 days,do not put yourself through unnecessary pain.