Hey, it's me!

[stephbg]

20 minutes into tonight's episode of House, the desperate chronically ill guy with the gun is... me! Right down to the post chicken pox/neuralgia and hypersensitive hearing. He needs to go beige.

ETA: 45 minutes in: It's not a tooma. I bet it's preservatives and tomatoes. And mint, oranges, curry, bacon etc etc etc. And let's not forget soup.

Perhaps now would be a time to ask my fellow chronic sickly friends if you've ever had House diagnosis fantasies? A team of dedicated brains and a whiteboard, just for you?

Comments

[alias_sqbr]

Well, I once fell into a coma for no apparent reason, and that seems to happen a lot on the show :) Though the doctors reaction was to do a lot of tests, scratch their heads, and say "Um. So. The only unusual result is that you were a bit low on salt. Which really doesn't explain it. Hopefully it won't happen again?", on the plus side they didn't half kill me in the process.

Coma

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Low sodium will do that.

Re: Coma

[alias_sqbr]

Apparently not normally at that level in someone my age, or something. I'd even eaten something salty shortly before falling into it.

I forgot to add my point: I got the House treatment to some extent. LOTS of random tests (including an MRI AND a catscan. Radioactive iodine feels funny) And despite the fact that, coma aside, I have a bunch of other health problems, they found nothing wrong with me :/ I do have the fantasy of a doctor going "Here! Take this pill once and you will be 100% healthy forever!" (and being right :D)