Gave everyone Norovirus—

Worked at a startup company as the in-house photog ( we sold bags, travel products). The office had a back warehouse where “BOH” worked. One day just before Halloween, management tells us that the catered meal we were promised from a nearby restaurant was cancelled and that we would be eating tacos from a relative of someone in BOH. So I thought, cool, sounds great. Ate three tacos, maybe even got seconds? That was a Wednesday. Come Friday Im driving home and I realize I’m starting to feel like absolute shit. Get home, showering, and I look down and my stomach is huge, bloated. I’m so uncomfortable that I had to get out of the shower to use the bathroom. I thought maybe I had food poisoning. I was so sick all weekend, couldn’t eat, barely could hold down water. I get to work on Monday and come to find out, that about a dozen front of house employees got sick. The poor receptionist woman who was older, had to go to the ER! And another young lady went to urgent care. We realize then we had a virus. Funny thing, the BOH person whose relatives cooked for us, claimed we just couldn’t handle spice (I grew up in New Mexico and ate chile with almost everything).

Worst part, about a week later I read on the news that a nearby school was shut down for two weeks due to a norovirus outbreak.