Tuesday, October 07, 2008

owie

i hurt myself by coughing and sneezing.

for the past week or so i have had chest pain with each cough, sneeze, sniff, and deep breath (i gots allergies). i thought i was getting better, but today while crossing the street i sneezed. suddenly i was hurting a lot worse— with breathing in and breathing out, with each step, with every word i spoke.

i could take something for the pain. sure. but the best medicine for it is something i've been taking for fairly frequently for headaches. what if it becomes too much medicine? i could get ulcers. or kidney disease! what if i...

i am certain i have simply pulled a chest wall muscle. of course, it has been so long now (and the pain is getting worse) that i have to entertain another diganosis: a broken rib.

why on earth would i have broken a rib? coughing and sneezing? sure. little osteoporotic old people do it. so it's possible. so now do i have osteoporosis? am i malnourished?

this has been an exercise to illustrate that sometimes knowing too much makes for nothing but a big heap of trivia.

HA!

owie. it hurts to laugh.

2 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

And of course, sometimes, even when you wrote the song, someone else might be a better choice to play the lead break. This has been a message by vague parables worldwide. Void where prohibited. :)

10/07/2008 09:02:00 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hm.

I think this would work very well for the hypochondriac, as well.

I hope your rib heals soon.

10/13/2008 02:54:00 PM

 

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