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Login/Join to ParticipateHOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
I have a cold.
Except it's funny. See, I just finished my Infectious Diseases final today, I woke up with a cold. Ironic, eh?
But when I can't just have a sore throat. No, I have to have "pharyngitis." And I can't have a simple runny nose, I have "choryza" or "rhinorrhea." And I can't just have a cold, I have to have a differential diagnosis as long as an interstate. And then I have to inspect my tonsils in the bathroom mirror and note that there is no purulent exudate (pus) on them and that one of them is edematous (swollen) and erythematous (red).
It's sort of like a friend of mine who was a culinary student. He couldn't just make himself an omlette when he was hungry. It was always a "creation" with sauteed vegetables, spices, and a soufflé dish. He said that the one thing he missed about his pre-culinary school life was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
That's my basic approach to getting sick. Maybe one day I'll be able to get sick again without having to diagnose myself.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Intrepid Penguin
5,635 posts
Location: Australia
feel bettttttttter!
seriously tho, thats kinda scary, the whole self diagnosis thing....
does that mean when you graze your knee (abrade it) that it becomes something serious?
can nothing ever just be cured by chicken noodle soup anymore?? ARGH! and what about kisses better!
(not that im offering to kiss your tonsil...)
Currently on the right side up of the world.
2,905 posts
Location: San Diego California
Bah! carefull, if things keep going the way they are you could end up with somehting serius.
Some Jarhead last night: "this dumb a$$ thinks hes fireproof"
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
quote:No kidding. The most devastating diseases in the world often start with a "mild flu-like illness." I haven't been able to rule out West Nile yet...
Originally posted by Raymund Phule:
Bah! carefull, if things keep going the way they are you could end up with somehting serius.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
4,224 posts
Location: Back in Paris... for now !
awww... get well soon, beautiful
::puts on doctors outfit and loks very concerned and serious::
I'm afraid we're going to have to amputate that poor gentleman
shine on
cass
"I want brown bread... no, that is diesel oil..."
"So I was raised in Europe, where History comes from ..."
"NON !!! La Plume de mon oncle n est pas Bingibangibungi !!!"
2,737 posts
Location: London
HUGZ man.......colds suck
Small Lardy Person In Disguise
1,810 posts
Location: London
Will it make you feel better if we played Dr's and nurses ?
Slips into nurses outfit that she just happens to find under her bed
now where does it hurt the most?????
[ 19 September 2002, 05:51: Message edited by: BamBam ]
A kiss blown is a kiss wasted, the only kind of kiss is a kiss tasted.
I'm a woman. We don't say what we want, but we reserve the right to be pissed off if we don't get it. That's what makes us so fascinating and not just a LITTLE bit scary.
1,551 posts
Location: the arms of the Ganja Goddess
BamBam finds alot of stuff under the bed
You. Its whats for dinner!
As time passes, you realise all the mistakes you amde and the ones you wish you never did make.
The wave crashing on the beach
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
quote:Well, in my sinuses, but you'd better give me a thorough checking over...
Originally posted by BamBam:
Will it make you feel better if we played Dr's and nurses ?
Slips into nurses outfit that she just happens to find under her bed
now where does it hurt the most?????
Just to be sure...
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Incidentally, whatever I have is ruthless! Half the class was sniffling and sneezing today and one of the professors, too.
I asked my friend who's a doctor if he'd discovered the cure for the common cold yet and he said "hell, you think I'd be standing here if I had found the cure for the common cold?"
Well, I had to give a speech today, so I was all hopped up on nose spray and what-not. No more of that. Now I'm just going to take vitamin C and let my body do what it will to get rid of this thing.
Masking symptoms just makes you sick longer.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
536 posts
Location: carson city, nevada
thats why I dont get sick. ever. its quite nice in fact.
you can't have a war against terrorism because war IS terrorism.it's not about worshipping fire. its about making the fire want to worship you.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,749 posts
Location: Europe,Scotland,Both
Education ruins a lot of things, after taking higher georapghy (a-levels for all the sussanachs out there) I lost all apreachation of landscape. instead of a nice hill id see a 'terminal morain' etc.
now im in university im stenuiosly avoiding lering anything, so i dont spoil my apreation of litrature. This of couse clashes with the aims of my tutors, but fuck'em.
N
This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
-><- Kallisti
Are we there yet?
1,897 posts
Location: australia
Hope you're feeling better Mike - I'm feeling horrible today myself with a bad cold Colds are yuck - especially when I've got a show on Saturday, need to get better, need to get better.....
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
I'm pretty much better. I actually got a sinus infection, and my stubbornness about using decongestants almost did me in. I gave in and took Nytol (wonderful stuff). It knocked me out.
An hour later, I woke up to this loud *BANG* in my head...and then I felt this one sinus that had felt like it was going to explode suddenly depressurize. I had been in so much pain that when that happened, it felt like an orgasm...except better. *ahhhhhhh*
Today I feel fine. A bit of a stuffy nose still, slight scratchy throat, but it's over. I'm getting better now.
Really sucked, though. Before Tuesday I hadn't been sick in six years.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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