Jul 28, 2004 09:45
This is the third time recently I've expressed disagreement with a Tallahassee Memorial Hospital diagnosis and been proven unfortunately right. A friend's mom was told she "had a cold" that became near-fatal pneumonia (she was airlifted to Emory), and my friend and mentor John Degen was told he was having "routine complications" before his pulmonary system completely shut down. I told both they seemed to be having way more trouble than they ought, for what they were told, which is the same thing I said to Kirk at his birthday party. I hope he got to watch Fear of a Black Hat (which I gave him) before he went in this morning, he was JONESIN' for some Guerillas in the Midst.
Now that I know where he is, I'm crashing the joint with good will and well-wishings in hand/mind/body/spirit here soon, as my job at Dept. Health Florida rules and they understand these things. All I know is that he's holed up in that den of medical lies and hospitable villainy known as TMH, but that's all I need.
{Cue cool-as-hell action hero music}
In other news this morning...TMH IS A BED OF LIES AND DECEIT IN WHICH MAD DOCTORS RAPE THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH WITH SPOONS.
For reference, a TMH language key:
headache, stress => brain tumor
stress (this one I got firsthand) => minor heart attack
bit of a cough => sonic scream superpowers
runny nose => END OF HUMANITY, RUN
A postscript: make sure you don't read any humor (more like attempts thereof) wrong, that's how I deal with heartbreaking news.