Horrible horrible pain.

"I think I'm dying... let me post on rerolled real quick..."

Next time go to Yahoo Answers and post your Medical Questions there, I here they've got a hugely active completely legit crew of Medical Doctors that can diagnose issues over the internet based on a text post.

Did they happen to do a CXR scan of your lungs, as well?

It is a fucking chesgburster, make sure it doesnt wvolve into a full aljwn or you'LL DOOM THE PLANET

Is this thread the utilized contingency plan for your twitter account having no followers?

M'eh. Medicine is overrated. You tried reiki?

Cinnamilk?

Oh shit, we've been AlekseiFL-ed.

Dat pnemonia.

And say ECG intead of EKG. EKG is soooooo 1950's.

For 100% serious, say ECG instead. Electrocardiogram. I suppose the thinking was that "EE-KAY" was more distinct a sound than "EE-CEE" but ain't nobody got time for that shit no more!

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Dat pnemonia.

And say ECG intead of EKG. EKG is soooooo 1950's.

For 100% serious, say ECG instead. Electrocardiogram. I suppose the thinking was that "EE-KAY" was more distinct a sound than "EE-CEE" but ain't nobody got time for that shit no more!

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Dude lets keep it academic (akademic?) and say EKG. Its from ?????? = kard?a = heart and better hope your doc has enough intellectual background to know that and is old school enough to use EKG.

See, that doesn't make any sense in this language though.

You're not supposed to call Fallopian tubes Fallopian anymore either or Eustachian tubes Eustachian. You're supposed to call them "stringy girl parts" and "childhood snot funnel" now.

I prefer "the dark abyss".

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Dude lets keep it academic (akademic?) and say EKG. Its from ?????? = kard?a = heart and better hope your doc has enough intellectual background to know that and is old school enough to use EKG.

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I, too, rate my doctors by their knowledge of the history of language

Iannis, the reason why professionals don't write (and sometimes say) ECG is because it LOOKS similar to EEG. That's why they write EKG.

Sorry Thorne, I meant XR. It does sound like a pretty severe case of pneumonia. What's it look like? Some crazy infiltrate going on?


edit: Are you on clot precautions? Did they put you on heparin? What's your INR/aPTT?

I ended up in the ER a couple months ago from a similar case of pneumonia, that had caused severe pleurisy on my right side. Good stuff.