I meant to blog about this last week, but I’d just like to stress how important it is to rewash your lettuce/spinach/etc. each time before you eat it, even if the bag is labelled “prewashed.” And as The New York Times reported yesterday, do not eat anything while sitting on a sandy beach without first washing your hands, especially if you’re going to sit on a beach along Long Island or the Jersey shore, each of which are likely to have copious amounts of sewage run-off embedded in the sand grains.

Don’t feel like heeding this advice? Well, then, you just might end up with 14 hours of fun like I experienced last Sunday late-night, due to my own stupidity. E. coli outsmarted  me, and caused me to have scopes and cameras in places that are only normal fare for those in the 50+ crowd. Whether it was my unwashed lettuce, the sand or some other source unbeknownst to me, I do not know. But good thing for Cipro!