02-18-2009, 06:45 AM
Many thanks for the input. I may have gotten a touch of it last week. Last week, I ate what can be described as a "chestnut". It came from a hard green pod that was about 5" long and contained about 8 "chestnuts". Since it was encased in the pod, and not being one who's obsessed with getting sick, I ate one raw without washing it. The next day (or perhaps 2 days later), I woke up with severe pain in the upper back and neck. I thought perhaps I had slept wrong (which I don't do) and then I read an article in the Sunday paper that cited stiffness of the neck and back as one of the symptoms. It only lasted a day, and now I'm back to "normal"... Maybe I had it, maybe not, but in a rather perverse sense I hope I did because I survived it and now I have another life experience. Cool. [:p] p.s. What DID I eat, anyway???