Date: October 18, 2007
Entery Number: 8
Page/Quote reflecting on: Pg. 48
When Esther and all the other girls who ate the crab meat and got sick, Doreen told Esther, "...you almost died." My question is how did she almost die? "They did tests on it and it was chock full of ptomaine." How did the ptomaine almost kill her? Ptomaine doesn't even cause food poisoning, like it was previously thought to, so how did it almost kill her? And if it almost killed her, did it nearly kill the other girls also? Ptomaine is actually any kind of toxic nitrogenous organic compound that is produced by bacterial decomposition of proteins. I wonder along with the vomiting if she had any other symptoms like a fever or what? If she did, then I could understand how it might have almost killed her but how could vomiting almost kill her? It's very strange.
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