My friend Jami loves music.
Last week we all went out to eat on her 49th birthday. She and her mother (my room mate) ordered the same thing. The next day, they both felt ill and thought it might be from the food. No one else was sick.
My room mate got better after a few days but Jami did not. She then went to the hospital, and they performed scans of her belly and discovered a blocked bile duct and a 'spot' on her pancreas.
After surgery to place a stent in her duct and do a biopsy of the pancreas, they found that it is pancreatic cancer. But. they found it very early and she has a good chance of a full recovery after more surgery in the next few weeks.
So, getting food poisoning may have saved her life, and she can keep listening to music.
Update: While the doctor's are saying that they're happy the cancer was caught early, they have since discovered that it is a very aggressive form of cancer. One doctor called it the "Mike Tyson of cancers", very tough and hard to beat.
She will have to undergo radiation, chemotherapy and surgery.
I've known her since she was 11; she's like a niece to me. Trying to remain positive, despite my Uncle Hawk dying from the same disease.