Danny Who ([info]danwho) wrote,
@ 2003-11-11 06:02:00
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ill play ur games, with ur sex with electric shocks
im sorry i have been both absent and spacey lately, but i've been sick, and not just with one thing, with multiple ailments all overlapping....with a few glimmers of health and/or self medication

i've been ailing for about 3 weeks straight with some sort of problem, not everything at once, but every day with at least a few of the following annoyances making every minute of the day being more painful than the last, my entire skeletal system ached, my muscles refused to hold my weight, and i had fevers, numbness, sweating and freezing, lower back pain, headaches, shooting pains in neck, nausea, diarhea, acid indigestion, sore throat, cough, tingling, dizziness, fatigue...and the overwhelming urge to turn my bed over sideways and use it as a wall and build a fort around it...

well kinda like im drunk cuz im into itthese urges for pillow and blanket construction are probably not part of any illness, but the cravings did start hitting me about the same time that i started getting sick, maybe just the need to be bundled up in a little sanctuary/biological quarantine tent...

so maybe theres something wrong with me, maybe i have the mumps, measles, the heebie jeebies, and the hypochandria that have been going around like wild fire this autumn...but try to convince me to see a doctor..go ahead...NO...yeah i know, but i dont care..no that wasnt bad..try again...yeah, yeah, well you have a point there, uh huh, right i hear ya, and NO...see looks like im not buckling any time soon, so lets move on, we can always come back to that later, time permitting, if you think of any real good ideas on persuasion.

i really hate doctors, not the persons, but the professionals, if any doctors are reading this, go ahead and take offense, its free and its all yours. I know doctors are important, neccessary and do a lof of good, and my brother is trying be a doctor someday...but my opinion is i hate them, and if you want to let me die on the operating table someday because i said i hate doctors then go ahead...i mean i'm not racist or prejudice against anyone of a certain religion or culture, but can't i just group all doctors together and say i hate them, can't i just have that one group to hate blindly for no reason?

some people hate lawyers, and they make jokes and about them being scum and stuff and thats cool with me, i don't care..some people hate cats, they say mean things like cats are sneaky, lazy good for nothing whores, and i let it slide...some people hate milkmen, and there are alot less of active milkmen nowadays, whats that tell you? yeah, hate crimes...

im not saying lets hate crime doctors all over their faces, just let it be cool for me be sick and not want to waste my time in a doctors' office...when it is already painful enough being out of bed, no less being told things i already know, by a person who only really cares if my insurance is valid or not...

i could get into the details but most of its been done to death by standups, the waiting rooms, the smaller waiting rooms, the cold stethoscope, the surly nurses, the hours of paperwork and calling the insurance company when you switch doctors, the leaving of surgical tools inside the body and other malpractices, the diagnoseses of 'its probably nothing, come back in a few days if it keeps up', the lady who pokes your gums in the dentists office...yeah i hate dentists too, even more for the fact that me and my brother were subject of guinea pig experimentation...

thats me in the spotlightif you havent heard this story, i only tell it every so often having thought it was something i've told before, and not really being proud of it, but people always react like they've never heard it so maybe you dont know it...me and my brother had an orthodontist, who by the way was 45 minutes away, and there were closer ones, but this guy wanted to give us a price break so he could try a new technique on us...so since it was so far away, going to the orthodontist was always an ordeal, an after school day trip if you will...

so after driving forever and then waiting in the wating room, and then waiting in the examination room, this guy comes in, sometimes not wearing gloves...which im pretty sure is illegal...he paws at our teeth for a while and makes stupid jokes, you know the normal scum of the earth...

well my two eye teeth came in backwards, yes 180 degrees from the correct position...The gums had to be cut around the teeth and the teeth slowly turned, but not like in one painful shot, over maybe a painful month or two, slow torture with a system of elaborate pulleys and snow chains...

my brother had two rows of teeth on his bottom jaw, one behind the other, i dont know where all the teeth came from, they have since been fixed, im sure through some painful pulleys and levers as well...

i dont know if this "doctor" had wanted to do a study on us, because of our freakish teeth, but he said he was doing a study on a new form of jaw expansion orthodontics and wanted to use brothers as subjects because of similar teeth genetics...

so many pictures of befores, middles and afters, and lots of tireless manhours later, and me, my brother and our pearly whites were on a screen 50 feet tall at a series of orthodontic seminars and lectures and were features in some fanboy orthodontist enthusiast magazine, a very popular one as i understand, as far as stupid ass magazines are concerned.

and if THAT was my fifteen minutes, then i really hope some doctor reads this and refuses me care, when this case of feeble-loseritis flares up out of control.



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From ALEXIS
(Anonymous)
2003-11-11 06:42 am UTC (link)
Dan, that tooth story is hilarious!!! I was cracking up with the two rows of teeth. It was the funniest mental picture in the world!

I feel you and your brother's pain though, cause I had really bad teeth too. I had buck teeth, was nicknamed "Bucky", and on top of THAT, I had a gap between my front teeth that you could park a car in. But alas, now we are fixed!

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From ALEXIS
(Anonymous)
2003-11-11 06:43 am UTC (link)
P.S. - Go to the damn doctor, you jackass

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your brother dave
(Anonymous)
2003-11-11 07:42 pm UTC (link)
that post was so frightening and hard to read because it brought up physically and emotionally painful memories that i have worked tirelessly for many years to forget. i hate everything about Dr. Phil- his horrible paintings, his addiction for skiing, his terrible music, loud hawaiian shirts, annoying kids, location, 70's mustache, "wall of fame", and nurses that would be replaced every month or so. the fact that he was so unsanitary never bothered me until i was older. sanitation issues are the last things running through the mind of a kid who picks his nose and wipes his nose on his sleeve. one day while enduring new methods of torture to be used by the US army, i realized that sargent pistolas, the man whose nose i was looking up, wasn't wearing any gloves. furthermore, his spit was falling into my mouth as he was calling me a shark for having multiple rows of teeth. my hatred for doctor phil intensified during every visit, but more so that day. i'll hate doctor phil forever, and i'll never forgive mom for whoring us out, but i see why she had to do it. the least she could have done was let us visit the ice cream place just down the road, instead of driving very fast past it, and going to the teacher store instead. as for our fame in the orthodontic world, i've always wanted to be in a magazine, but not like this dan. not like this.

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In sickness and in health....
(Anonymous)
2003-11-12 06:07 am UTC (link)
Consider my medical debacle this year:

I usually get my allergy shot in February so it can cycle properly for Allergy Season. I'm a pollen/mold/ragweed. This year, however, I was without medical insurance for the first time in my life, having finally flown out of my parent's nest. I figured when Feb. hit that $180 for some antibiotics and two shots wasn't worth it.

I should have sucked it up.

I waited until May to get medicated, and at that point my doctor told me I was so far behind he was worried about bacterial infection. I was given 2 grams (yes, 2 grams, not a misprint) of some kind of penicillin, which my doctor assured me would also, "Knock syhpillis right outta ya....if you have it." That was not reassuring. then I got my two shots.

Two things happened: first off, does anyone know what 2 grams of penecillin does to your stomach? I would liken it to a nuclear bomb, but with more explosive diarrhea. Also, the medicine in my shot has cycled improperly this year, so I got minimal protection in July-August-Septemeber, the worst part of the season. The good news? I am fortified like a motherf*cker for November/December. Yee HAAAAAAAAA!!

That was my long-winded way of saying, "I feel your pain." But I do. I feel your pain. For the whole month of September.

Geoff Baio

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Dude, thank God you went to the doctor
(Anonymous)
2003-11-14 11:48 am UTC (link)
Hey, this is your philosophy buddy...that was a good move going to the doctor, but perhaps you should have gone a tad earlier. But, hopefully it'll all be fine. I had no idea what you were about, an unknown quantity if you will, so I don't think I really understood what was happening. I just recently found your site and read a little...and holy crap...it was interesting. I didn't know the extent to which the sickness had affected you, but now I know, and all I have to say is wow...well, I hope you get better soon, because I need someone to talk about philosophy with, and, since you chose me as a partner...uh....that kinda leaves me w/out one, so hurry up and convalesce, will ya? Talk to you later.

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