Re: What to do if you meet a wolf

David Harmon <source@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 15:04:45 +0000 (UTC) in rec.arts.sf.fandom,
> rkshullat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote,
>>Personal experience... At about age 5 I found the bottle of
>>orange-flavored chewable vitamin C in the bathroom and consumed the
>>remainder of the bottle, somewhere in the 30-60 grams range, or 500-1000
>>times the RDA. The doctor's response to my mother's frantic phone call
>>was "tell him not to do that again." I don't recall any side effects.
> 
> I would have predicted some diarrhea from that much.  Don't do it
> again just to find out, though.

It's entire possible, although I don't recall. It probably wouldn't have
made a lasting impression on me unless it were quite painful or extremely
dramatic. I have no urge to repeat the experiment, or any of the other
childhood experiments I was fortunate enough to survive.

	Robert
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