IABUnreasonably idiotic...this fool just accidentally poisoned herself...

[TheSheepofWallSt]

Dashing around doing 1000 things at once. Repotted a plant and nipped a smushed flower off....

30 mins later felt spaced out and tongue and throat felt prickly and thick: immediately knew it was an allergic reaction.
Had to call DM to dash over as am a single mother to a toddler and wasn’t sure what had caused it or how bad it would get.

DM did some excellent detective work and like tiny blonde columbo in bifocals, immediately realised I’d somehow managed to ingest peace lily toxin (guessing biting my nails did it).

I know peace lilies are mildly toxic. I never maintain them without washing my hands normally. I just had a moment of thoughtlessness and now feel like a prime idiot.

A cautionary tale: peace lilies when ingested make you feel rather ill.

Oh dear! Poor you OP!

Poor you! You ok now?

You have my sympathies, lucky your mum was on the ball.

Mind you, my sympathies aren't worth much. I'm the woman who an hour ago picked up an oven dish bare-handed completely forgetting that it had just been in the oven for a fucking hour. Not only did I burn my hand, I dropped the dish and smashed lasagne all over the kitchen floor and up the front of the cupboard, the cooker, and the fridge so that was the end of dinner and we've ordered a take away instead.

Feel like a prize idiot but yes
Thank you. A bit shaky (adrenaline I guess) and bloated from the pints of water I necked... but seems to have subsided mostly...

like tiny blonde columbo in bifocals

Love the description of your DM !

Hope you are feeling better, now OP

@Hoik she came over in her pyjamas and anorak, brandishing a bottle of piriton and dialling 111 on her mobile (not that we could get through- there are a few new coronavirus cases in our city- guessing its panic stations for quite a lot of people tonight!)

Poor you / lasagne. One of our family legends is the time my Nan dropped a meat pie on the floor in a Pyrex dish. They were skint and it was the last of the food in the larder - apparently my Nan took one look at the floor, turned around and went to bed, where apparently she stayed until Gramps payday a few days later.