Adventures in Urgent Care, or, Kara Learns to Use a Bed Pan

In many ways I am very much like my mother. For instance, we both get shoulders of steel when we're stressed out, we both get cranky when we're hungry, we're both ridiculously easily amused. And my mother says "it takes an act of congress" to get her to throw up, which seems to be true for me as well. I threw up for the first time when I was four, and then not again until I was eight. After that I threw up at age twelve, and got deathly ill at age fifteen (that was the time I lost ten or twelve pounds in three days). But besides those distinct four instances, I never ever ever throw up (that doesn't count the three times I've had too much to drink and thrown up the alcohol).

( Adventures in Vomit Land )