March 18, 2004
Nothing broken, nothing torn
It's not every day that you're told you have the muscle strength of an elementary school student. Yesterday, my new doctor (the one that kicks arse, not the pretender) sent me off to "rehabili", ran some tests on my left knee and basically told me that I suck. I dunno, I reckon I could have told him that before he charged me 27,000 yen for a CaT scan.
On the subject of CaTs, those things scare the bejeezuz outta me. Anyone who knows me at all knows I'm not a panicker by nature, but the moment I get near one of those CaT muthas, I start sweating and carrying on like a porkchop.
My phobia of CaTs may be the residue of a surreal experience a few years ago (where I may or may not have been very drunk) when I may or may not have fallen down a flight of stairs and got knocked out (which possibly sent my front tooth through my bottom lip and into oblivion). I had to have a CaT scan of my brain then, although it may have been an excuse for the hospital to check that everyone... erm, everything, was ticketyboo inside there.
I can think of more pleasant experiences than being sent into a giant white pizza oven (just douse me with mozzarella and salami and be done with it, already) with loud clacking noises encircling your head and a white-clad nurse slapping you around intermittently with a resounding, "just be still, won't you?".
So the new kick-arse doctor has given me the all-clear on the CaT front and the license to stop walking like Frankenstein's monster. I just have the muscle strength of a 10 year-old, ergo I still can't walk properly. Ergo I suck. Just ask me.
yup cat scans rock. but mri-s rock harder. hmm. or maybe not. excuse the no capital letters thing, i'm typing with one hand coz the other hand is busy stuffing chips into my mouth :)
congrats on dicky knee being less dicky! if you work at it with a phys therapist you'll be in great shape in no time.. i've never had a cat scan before.. they sound thrilling though :)
Actually Megha, it *was* an MRI, but the process/contraption looked exactly the same as when I had a CaT scan (except the MRI was 10 times as long) so I just assumed they were the same thing. Hmmmm, must look into that...
Just what is, ?carrying on like a porkchop??
Is it when you slide all over your plate in a melted swine fat frenzy only to leave behind a trail that dries quickly into some sort of sticky gooey trail that reminds you of a snail with a bowel condition?
Or is it perhaps a reference to a bad anime ninja movie in which pigs play the part of the evil ninja who are looking to take control of the other barnyard animals who are trying to run some sort of co-operative agricultural society, ala the book Animal Farm?
Or perhaps it is just your way of saying that you are the ?other white meat?.
Of course, it could be some Aussie colloquialism that I am blissfully unaware of. In which case, I should just shod off. :)
Actually it's one of my father's old saying, "just like a porkchop in Jerusalem" meaning to act inappropriately in any given situation. My father used to say this to me a lot. Guess it figures.
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Brandon
Java, Indonesia
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/michael
Kinki,
Don't you just love the sayings fathers pass on to their children? My personal favorite from my father was, "Shit in one hand and wish in the other, see which one fills up faster."
Anyway, I am glad to see that you are on the road to recovery.
John
Ha! I've never heard that saying - love it though.