Monday, September 9, 2019

Thanks, Sherlock

A drug rep marketing an epilepsy medication brought lunch in for Pissy and I, so we were having the usual 30 minutes of catered sandwiches and pamphlets full of glossy pictures, graphs, and small print.

As we talked, she mentioned that, as part of her new-hire training, she was sent to volunteer at Camp Shaking Pines this past summer. This is a summer camp held for children with epilepsy who, for medical reasons, can't go to other camps. The purpose of her 3 days there was to "raise my awareness" of epilepsy.

Then she said "Doctor, do you know that some of those kids, the ones with seizures, will actually have seizures, right there, at seizure camp?"

I heard a thud behind me as Pissy's hand hit his face.


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12 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 9, 2019 at 9:13 AM

    Guess her previous awareness was running about 0/10. Now must be 2/10.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 9, 2019 at 9:26 AM

    I'm with Pissy....before you even got to the end i could see where this was going...i'm going to go with the idea that it "sounded better in her head" than it did out loud...because the alternative is wondering about the common sense in humanity...

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  3. MooseSeptember 9, 2019 at 11:45 AM

    "Camp Shaking Pines"

    You are so bad

    (I'm imagining these kids being bombarded with pinecones.)

    "brought lunch in for Pissy and I"

    and eternally a grammatical disaster.

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  4. jbt369September 9, 2019 at 2:37 PM

    I used to work at a camp for blind people. Did you know that they were blind all of the time they were there? It was astounding.

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  5. Ms. DonnaSeptember 9, 2019 at 2:44 PM

    Oh, the stupidity. I am surprised you and Dr. Pissy didn't hit the floor. Or the rep.

    Unless the med is a real breakthrough, please think twice about it.

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  6. southern docSeptember 9, 2019 at 5:40 PM

    Cheerleading team at which university?

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  7. gloriapSeptember 9, 2019 at 6:05 PM

    Why don't kids leave their conditions at home when they go to camp. Their cellphones, too.

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  8. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2019 at 9:14 AM

    So I'm guessing she didn't raise your awareness or Dr. Pissy's awareness all that much. LOL.

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  9. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2019 at 12:34 PM

    Was the rep's name Penny?

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  10. ShashSeptember 11, 2019 at 5:26 PM

    Did you raise her awareness of the reason they had a special camp? She doesn't sound long for the drug rep career.

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  11. PackerSeptember 11, 2019 at 8:40 PM

    Moose, Grammar is dead, we just have not held a funeral.

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  12. B.W.C.September 28, 2019 at 6:09 PM

    "Camp Shaking Pines" = lulz.

    The fact that she called it "seizure camp" = even bigger lulz.

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So wadda you think?