The 'BUG' at the Dallas show?

David Hartley · Post by **David Hartley** » 15 Mar 2010 11:18 am

Who got it? I had never felt so ill. I have been home 3 hours now, and I still ain't right.. I won't go into details, but if you had it, you know what it was like!!!!

PS.. please look at the Sho-Bud links/threads, somebody must know something about this!

Regards

David

W. J. Copeland · Post by **W. J. Copeland** » 15 Mar 2010 12:38 pm

There were three of us, and we all came down with it Friday night. Stayed in bed all day Saturday and finally went to the ballroom around 7:00p. I spoke with the gentleman that was sent to the hospital Friday night and he had it also.

James Morehead · Post by **James Morehead** » 15 Mar 2010 12:56 pm

Hey David, Sorry to hear so many were sick. Bummer.

Here's the link on Bill Stroud's guitar.

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... 68#1570368

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 15 Mar 2010 1:59 pm

Rebecca got it Fir, about 4 PM, she was so sick we had to stay at the hotel fir night, we live 20 miles from the show, No way she could have made it home, with out have to buy a new one.. $:\$ she went to work today, but still ain't right.... does anyone know what the guy who went to the hospital had???

James Morehead · Post by **James Morehead** » 15 Mar 2010 2:07 pm

James Morehead wrote:

Here's the link on Bill Stroud's guitar.

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopi ... 68#1570368

This is now a "sticky" in Events Announcements. Please check it out.

Chuck Huffman · Post by **Chuck Huffman** » 15 Mar 2010 2:18 pm

My wife Theresa came down with it Friday. She was feeling extremely ill and spent most of Saturday in the hotel room. She's still sick from it. She had felt great when we arrived Thursday.
I know of three others who were also sickened by the Bug.

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 15 Mar 2010 2:20 pm

Sounds like food poisoning. Did the hotel serve any food that everyone ate?

Roger Crawford · Post by **Roger Crawford** » 15 Mar 2010 3:01 pm

I thought this was going to be abour Fred Justice! I hope everyone is doing better.

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 15 Mar 2010 3:28 pm

I didn't have it like everyone else's account, but I've been feeling miserable since yesterday morning. I will take some responsibility for that, as I hit it pretty hard, but my stomach has not felt right since then.

I hope everyone is OK.

Jaclyn Jones · Post by **Jaclyn Jones** » 15 Mar 2010 4:09 pm

It is not food poisioning. It has been spreading all around south Texas and many other states as well. It put me down for a week. I have an ER full of patients and staff off work. Most likely the same bug found on cruise ships. Hope you all feel better! It is the reason I did not get to Dallas.

Ray Harrison · Post by **Ray Harrison** » 15 Mar 2010 4:36 pm

My lovely wife, Sandra, was out Fri nite, Sat and finally came out of the room Sunday. I've never seen her so ill.
Glad she's back to her normal self.

Chris LeDrew · Post by **Chris LeDrew** » 15 Mar 2010 4:45 pm

I'm so sorry to hear about all the sickness at the show. I don't know how I avoided it but I felt great all weekend. I did have someone elses puke come up through my sink, and I had to move rooms at around 2am saturday morning. This was a minor inconvenience compared to those who sacrificed their whole weekend worshipping the porcelain altar. The hotel was pretty hush hush about it all. I asked the employees a few questions and they clammed right up. Said they heard nothing about it. Hard to believe. But did you see the maids going around wiping everything down?

Once again, my condolances to those who were sick. It must have been awful.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 15 Mar 2010 4:51 pm

Chris LeDrew wrote: I did have someone elses puke come up through my sink...

Man, somebody in the room below you must've been really disoriented...

Gene Crain · Post by **Gene Crain** » 15 Mar 2010 5:08 pm

My pretty bride Gayla Earlene got sick Saturday afternoon and wasn't able to leave the rooom until we left Sunday morning and she's still weak today. Sure was good music though

Chris LeDrew · Post by **Chris LeDrew** » 15 Mar 2010 5:09 pm

True, Jim! Well the smell of it still makes want to urge. They wouldn't tell me how or why it happened when I asked about it the next day, only that "it is now fixed, sir."

Wayne Morton · Post by **Wayne Morton** » 15 Mar 2010 5:47 pm

My wife, Susie, and I ate in the 12th floor club room about 7pm Fri nite. She got sick at 9:30 and I got it at 9:35. Monday now and I'm just now thinking i'm gonna live.
Wayne

Chris LeDrew · Post by **Chris LeDrew** » 15 Mar 2010 6:27 pm

Ya, its a bit bizarre to have that many people simultaneously pick up a bug. I talked to several who were sick after eating on the 12th floor. Sounds like food poisoning to me as well. I avoided the hotel food as soon as I got wind of people being sick all at the same time. I ate there last night, thinking that whatever went wrong had been fixed. This typ of thing is very scary, especially for someone like me coming from another country and potentially being hospitalized. I feel very lucky to not have contracted it. Once again, my sympathies to those whose weekend was blown out by it.

Jeff Evans · Post by **Jeff Evans** » 15 Mar 2010 7:30 pm

. . . very scary, especially for someone like me coming from another country and potentially being hospitalized.

Your premier wasn't skeert.

. . . very scary . . .

Oh, the bill. Yes, that could've been frightening. Fortunately, a metabolism tempered by poutine isn't likely to be fazed by the sludge at Denny's.

(Always pass on the medium-raw chicken sandwiches with sun-cured mayonnaise.)

The vomitus suite sounds sweet. Hope they're comping you next time and that the sights and smells will be as good as the music.

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 15 Mar 2010 7:49 pm

Well I don't know if it was food poisoning in this case or not, but I've had food poisoning. Trade show, 1995 or so, in Vegas. We had a big company meeting. It was catered by the hotel. Everybody got sick, most the next day, but one poor sole didn't get hit until he was flying home in major turbulence.

Ahh...Vegas.

Jeff Valentine · Post by **Jeff Valentine** » 15 Mar 2010 9:02 pm

Was everyone who got sick staying at the Sheraton? I was across the street at the Holiday Inn and didn't hear anything about it. Luck me I guess....

-Jeff

Jim Palenscar · Post by **Jim Palenscar** » 15 Mar 2010 9:06 pm

I know of 8 others including my wife who were violently taken ill all on Friday night. I know of no virus that can take at the very minimum of 20 healthy people down w/in 8 hours of lunch. If it's not food poisoning I don't know what it was.

Post by **Brad Bechtel** » 15 Mar 2010 9:54 pm

I'm sure it was food poisoning. I was lucky enough to avoid it, but I pretty much stuck to salads and a burger or two. The buffet looked very suspicious to me.

Jim, were you there? I didn't see you!

Chris LeDrew · Post by **Chris LeDrew** » 15 Mar 2010 10:54 pm

Jeff Evans wrote:
. . . very scary, especially for someone like me coming from another country and potentially being hospitalized.
Your premier wasn't skeert.

Wow, Jeff....I'm impressed at your knowledge of Newfoundland current events! And thanks for the tip on a potential freebie. I think I'll call and kick up a fuss.

Dave Grothusen · Post by **Dave Grothusen** » 16 Mar 2010 3:55 am

I sayed at the Sheratan, did not eat on the 12th floor but I am running temerature this morning. Not a problem with my stomach. Just a bug in my head and throat.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 16 Mar 2010 4:44 am

I'm sick this morning, and I didn't even GO to Dallas!

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