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arisbe ([personal profile] arisbe) wrote2005-02-07 01:14 am

Materia Medica

Thanks to all for your thoughts, wishes, and prayers.

And to the divine poppy.

And a new pain med called something very much like taradiddle.

And two bags of saline drip.

Under the influence of which I made an off color remark. The color in question being a very dark red.

"Oh, they pricked your finger."
"At least they didn't finger my prick."

And Barsanuphius, a stuffed animal of indeterminate species which Srsti (yes the r is a vowel, deal with it) brought back to the emergency room from her late dinner break. I should have called him Peter for two reasons, but that would have been pompously Papistical.

The offending particle, when I pissed it out attempting to produce sufficient urine to insert a dipstick into, was insultingly small, at least compared to some of the things I have passed in the past, especially after the lithotripsy.

Home by midnight.

[identity profile] arichi.livejournal.com 2005-02-08 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
Well, in Roman Numerals, IV is four. So, IV needles become four needles.

[it took my roommate a while to understand what I was saying when I first told the joke]

[identity profile] arisbe.livejournal.com 2005-02-08 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Duh. Gotcha. Like the student who asks, Who was this Pope Malcolm the Tenth?

[identity profile] arichi.livejournal.com 2005-02-08 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly. Or at least the same idea.