Has anyone ever been sick before from a coffee machine?
Like to think we're reasonably fastidious people and very careful with hygene, particularly as we camp in the bush alot.
We've learned to clean up well, but this could be a timely warning, in this case at home.
I regularly fly interstate and working in the drug industry, have to say I possibly spend a lot of time or interact more with sick people than well.
Got back home late last Thurs night, worked from home on the Friday, made lunch, felt tired, made myself a coffee (separate coffee pod unit and milk frother).
Home made pizza for tea courtesey of SWMBO (yeah I know what you're now thinking, but no the insurance policy is in my favour not hers).
Five adults in the house all ate the same food. Watched the Hawks struggle but win, packed up and headed to bed.
Just cuddled up to SWMBO (after all I'd been away most of the week....nudge, nudge, wink, wink).
SWMBO rolls over and we kissssssssssss........very romantic.
Just as the passion starts to rise, so does the sick feeling in my stomach................
Without going into all the detail, my body went into spasms and convulsions that pretty muchly saw every orifice empty itself.
Now being the normal male, I played the usual poor me card as I was laying prostrate on the bathroom floor and spend the next 24hrs playing dead in bed. Hydralyte is my friend.
Of course the topic of conversation in the house is 'well you travel all the time, this was going to happen sooner than later',
except I've been travelling for nearly 20years.... at this stage noone else sick.
Finally Sunday morning starting to feel somewhat human again.
Then Sunday afternoon, 2 of the other 4 adults hit the bathroom with the same afflction and off course it's all my fault. Have to be more careful when I travel, look what you've bought home, if the rest of us catch this, well look out says SWMBO.
As I lay there retracing my steps over the previous 5 days as to where I could have caught this thing, i also started to eliminate many other possibilites and guess what was left?
You guessed it - the coffee machine.
Out of the 5 adults in the house, the only 3 to get sick were the coffee drinkers and it turns out the other two hadn't used the machine for a few days and both made a coffee using the machine on Sunday morning.
So the conundrum is - do we throw the machine out or is there a cleaning process that we need to know?
I could be an obsessive compulsive forumeister meme'ster, but just not sure.
