So, it was late afternoon, my last day off of this past long weekend. I was minding my own business, reading in the living room, when I realized that my lips were tingling. That was strange. I checked in the mirror, there was no discoloration and no swelling. I checked myself for other symptoms: slightly elevated pulse, which I attributed to nerves, no diaphoresis, no chest pain, no shortness of breath, no radiating pain, and as far as I could tell, no cognitive changes.
I "googled" tingling lips and discovered that one of the causes is a reaction to seafood. Ah ha! I had taken myself out to lunch at my favorite oriental buffet, The Hong Kong Buffet http://www.yellowpages.com/lubbock-tx/mip/hong-kong-restaurant-10222549. I know better. This restaurant very often has multiple health issues when it is inspected. And, I could tell that the steam table was not hot enough.
But it has selections that I like: some kind of green bean selection, at least one shrimp selection, fish, and mushroom selections. So, as always, I ate too much, including some sushi selections, including one that had a seaweed topping. I do not usually eat seaweed. Everything else I ate, I usually eat, including the hot and sour soup.
So, I am thinking that the tingling lips are a reaction to something I ate, specifically, but speculatively, the seaweed. To be on the safe side, I took some aspirin. But in about an hour, the tingling in my lips went away.
That was a weird sensation. But it reminded me that I wanted to write about the good and bad about eating at the Hong Kong Buffet.
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