Turn Your Head and Cough
This could also be labeled:
Drop Your Pants and Bend Over
Does It Hurt When I Do This?
Time for Some Bloodletting
"Say ahh..." "Say AHhhh..." "Say AAARRRHHHH!!!" "Now Spit!”
The latest:
• Blood test negative on hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Whew! Nothing is showing related to allergies that could explain the length or level of coughing I experienced.
• Radiologist friend looked at my X-rays and CT scans and says I do not have pneumonia, that lungs look pretty normal. This was confirmed by the lung specialist.
• Lung specialist still thinks it was acid reflux induced coughing, BUT that does not explain why I still have noise in my lungs. So, he is going to try to rule out two other odd things I could have (but he doesn’t think I have): (a) aspergillus (ABPA), or (b) MAI syndrome (MAC). In order to see about these two, I had to (a) have more blood drawn, and (b) hawk and spit three times into three different containers.
• Jeff thinks it’s a toad or small dwarf resting in stomach. Please see http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77rtheodoric.phtml which proves he may be right. The final part of the above is:
Joan: You charlatan! You killed my daughter, just like you killed most of my other children! Why don't you admit it! You don't know what you're doing!
Theodoric of York: [ steps toward the camera ] Wait a minute. Perhaps she's right. Perhaps I've been wrong to blindly follow the medical traditions and superstitions of past centuries. Maybe we barbers should test these assumptions analytically, through experimentation and a "scientific method". Maybe this scientific method could be extended to other fields of learning: the natural sciences, art, architecture, navigation. Perhaps I could lead the way to a new age, an age of rebirth, a Renaissance! [ thinks for a minute ] Naaaaaahhh!
I go to an ENT next week. Oh, joy. More blood and spitting? Something not nice shoved into small cavities? All these weeks of coughing and varying diagnoses may get down to this:
“We don’t know what you had, but are glad you’re getting better.”
Drop Your Pants and Bend Over
Does It Hurt When I Do This?
Time for Some Bloodletting
"Say ahh..." "Say AHhhh..." "Say AAARRRHHHH!!!" "Now Spit!”
The latest:
• Blood test negative on hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Whew! Nothing is showing related to allergies that could explain the length or level of coughing I experienced.
• Radiologist friend looked at my X-rays and CT scans and says I do not have pneumonia, that lungs look pretty normal. This was confirmed by the lung specialist.
• Lung specialist still thinks it was acid reflux induced coughing, BUT that does not explain why I still have noise in my lungs. So, he is going to try to rule out two other odd things I could have (but he doesn’t think I have): (a) aspergillus (ABPA), or (b) MAI syndrome (MAC). In order to see about these two, I had to (a) have more blood drawn, and (b) hawk and spit three times into three different containers.
• Jeff thinks it’s a toad or small dwarf resting in stomach. Please see http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77rtheodoric.phtml which proves he may be right. The final part of the above is:
Joan: You charlatan! You killed my daughter, just like you killed most of my other children! Why don't you admit it! You don't know what you're doing!
Theodoric of York: [ steps toward the camera ] Wait a minute. Perhaps she's right. Perhaps I've been wrong to blindly follow the medical traditions and superstitions of past centuries. Maybe we barbers should test these assumptions analytically, through experimentation and a "scientific method". Maybe this scientific method could be extended to other fields of learning: the natural sciences, art, architecture, navigation. Perhaps I could lead the way to a new age, an age of rebirth, a Renaissance! [ thinks for a minute ] Naaaaaahhh!
I go to an ENT next week. Oh, joy. More blood and spitting? Something not nice shoved into small cavities? All these weeks of coughing and varying diagnoses may get down to this:
“We don’t know what you had, but are glad you’re getting better.”
posted by Bud Hirsch at 7:00 PM
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