“What’s the problem?”
“I’ve got appendicitis!”
“How do you know it’s appendicitis?”
“Because I had it before! And I had to go to hospital! And have my appendix out!”
“You had your appendix out?”
“Yes.”
“And you think you have appendicitis?”
“Yes!”
“In your appendix?”
“Yes!!!”
“Which you had taken out?”
“Oh…”
January 22nd, 2006 at 1:44 am
ROFL.
January 22nd, 2006 at 2:55 am
ROFL is right.
January 22nd, 2006 at 4:42 am
Oh. Dear. Oh. Dear.
DARWIN AWARD !!!
January 22nd, 2006 at 5:54 am
Is it all possible they [surgeions] took the gaul[gall] bladder in stead, a one in a mil problem ,leaving the caller with a bitter feeling,.Lets face it he did have the gall to call thee.
January 22nd, 2006 at 6:43 am
D’oh
January 22nd, 2006 at 8:54 am
what a numpty
January 22nd, 2006 at 11:30 am
Mabye they really had an earache?
January 23rd, 2006 at 12:51 am
What M2KB said. Plus you should be allowed to post out ‘to stupid to live’ tee shirts.
January 23rd, 2006 at 8:44 am
I know this sounds even more stupid but it could happen and something similar has happened. It is not unknown for for people to be born with two appendixes (appendices ?) - or at least one and the partial formation of a second one - in the same way that being born with one or three kidneys is not unknown.
I did once read of a documented case where someone complained that their symptoms were exactly the same as when they previously had appendicitis. After extreme scepticism doctors examined and eventually located and removed the second partial appendix which cured the problem
January 23rd, 2006 at 11:18 am
LOL, something to cheer me up on a Monday morning.
Shola
January 23rd, 2006 at 11:32 am
I just hope I never think I need the services of an ambulance and ring and say something stupid and end up here.
Maybe I did just say something stupid and ended up here anyway.
Oh well, at least I put myself here.Self degradation and all that.
January 23rd, 2006 at 8:30 pm
I’ve posted this to the student midwives website, because I think they will like it… just their sort of thing. (hope that’s ok!)
And hopefully it will bring you more avid readers like me!
January 24th, 2006 at 5:17 am
Stupid it may be, but the Lawyers in States make fortunes here on such elementary mistakes as leaving their cutters, remove the wrong leg or some other appendage. Doctors Mal-practice Insurance rates be thru the roof. Do tell me it does NOT happen in Blighty.
January 26th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Should send this one to clientcopia.com! ( i won’t do it without your permission.)
January 29th, 2006 at 5:02 am
Whahahaha! LOL!
I heard something similar that day i joined your control room, it’s really funny sometimes
Thanks by the way for the message you left ony my webspace a couple of days later.
I’ve got a new weblog now, the URL is http://medic1.web-log.nl/, i’ve put a link to your blog on it, together with some photolinks to my 5 days as observator with your ambulance service.
Cheers!
Karim (medic-1 /dutchmedic)
http://medic1.web-log.nl/
February 1st, 2006 at 11:48 pm
Appendiceal stump appendicitis is rare but described:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15789798&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum
Hey, Mark, can we have your email address? Your award is awaiting…
February 2nd, 2006 at 10:34 am
I can see I’m going to have to put my email address somewhere more prominent… it is actually on the About Nee Naw page but no-one ever seems to find it!
blog [at] neenaw [dot] co [dot] uk
March 7th, 2006 at 10:58 pm
Thats a definite Darwin Award thing… xD
April 30th, 2006 at 10:23 am
I totally agree with Chess, definitely a contender for the Darwin Awards, http://www.darwinawards.com
Maybe he was having sympathy appendicitis pains for someone else.
June 29th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I just had a stmp appendix removed. Same symptoms as my first appendicitis 6 years ago. It seems the surgeon left a 2 centimeter stump and it created a sort of pocket that caught a “stone” which caused inflammation. The new surgeon had to go in and remove the leftover appendix so this couldn’t happen again. So, you see, 2 appendectomies are not impossible. Inexcusable, yes but impossible, no.