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As we noted in the Morning Roundup, Ward 8 D.C. Council member Marion Barry was just released from the hospital on Monday evening after being treated for dehydration and a mild blood infection. But now D.C. Wire is reporting that the "Mayor for Life" actually went right back to Howard University Hospital late last night, thanks to an allergic reaction he had to some shrimp.
Barry and a group of friends decided to celebrate his release by going to dinner. Barry ordered the shrimp. A short time later, he says, his throat began to swell closed, his vision went blurry and his tongue went numb.Apparently Barry, 73, had never been allergic to shrimp before, but his doctor said it isn't unusual for food allergies of this kind to develop suddenly. The Councilman has already been released following this latest episode, and told reporters today that he still intends to get back to work right away.
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did he go to the shrimp boat up on benning road? where do i have to go to get shrimp that has the ability to fell a councilmember?
close call.
Barry was heard yelling as he walked in to Howard University hospital: "Shrimp set me up!"
I'd like to thank those shrimp personally.
The stake has to go all the way through the heart fellas...
Barry's heart is fully petrified, making penetration difficult.
There's a lot I don't like about Marion Barry, but I can't take joy in the inability of anyone, even him, to eat shrimp. Shrimp are tasty! A life without shrimp is no life at all, and certain minimum standards of basic human feeling apply.
(Anyone who disagrees with me re tastiness of shrimp should try my "fruits of the sea" chowder: Take shrimp, scallops, and eels, and wrap them in slices of bacon. Stew them in a cream-fontina chowder, then add a garnish of flying fish roe and baby apricots taken exclusively from the trees' first crop. For people who keep kosher, you can use turkey bacon.)
The headline is wrong. He was hospitalized for an allergic reaction after shrimping.