After consuming two plates of raw oysters at the glitzy L.A. Times 101 Best Restaurants event in L.A. earlier this month, Mark Kapczynski quickly began feeling an uncomfortable “bloating” sensation in his gut.
A day later, after coming home from a work dinner, he started feeling intensely ill.
“It was super painful,” he told L.A. TACO during a recent interview. “I got home from the work thing… and I just collapsed in my house.”
Over the next two days, Kapczynski spent “many hours in the bathroom” throwing up, while also experiencing bouts of chills, sweats, and stomach pain that felt “like someone grabbing at your stomach.”
Initially, he suspected he had food poisoning.