"They seem to disappear. We don't know where they're going. We did have a monitor on one, and before she disappeared and heard her say, 'My God, it's full of stars!'"
The obvious conclusion: if you have whatever this condition is, do NOT seek medical treatment. Your chances of survival drop significantly once you become a patient.
I'd just been talking about the 2001 statistics on bone marrow transplants a few days ago....
ReplyDelete"They seem to disappear. We don't know where they're going. We did have a monitor on one, and before she disappeared and heard her say, 'My God, it's full of stars!'"
ReplyDeleteOk, so again Chicago math. Probably will be the only comment today, given the fact that so many shot their bolt on yesterdays comment.
ReplyDeleteWritten for English majors who can't do math :-)
ReplyDeleteThese are known as Schroedinger survivors. They're only half-alive.
ReplyDelete2 + 2 = 5, for sufficiently large values of 2 and sufficiently small values of 5.
ReplyDelete-Old mathematical joke
The obvious conclusion: if you have whatever this condition is, do NOT seek medical treatment. Your chances of survival drop significantly once you become a patient.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the survivors lose a lot of weight.
ReplyDeleteThat doctor definitely needs a better advertising slogan.
ReplyDeleteWhat better time than Easter weekend to contemplate the miracle of resurrection...
ReplyDeleteAnd this is why you can't rely on spellcheck for everything.
ReplyDeleteEven if you're cured, that blind exit from the hospital parking lot onto a major street is a bitch...
ReplyDeleteThe rest are just pining for the fjords.
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