Poor, poor Christopher. New Year’s Eve he felt it…a slight scratching in his throat. The thought went through his head: “That EVIL family that came in late to the last Hobbit movie, sat up front, and THEN…saw the seats next to me and SAT IN THEM…the hacking girl who should NOT have been out an about…IT’S ALL HER FAULT!!!” (Not even knowing her Christmas must have been spent being miserably sick summoned compassion from a very compassionate individual because…poor, poor Christopher began the new year SICK!!! As in, missed two days of work sick…when I didn’t plan to take ANY time off until late April.)
But let’s talk about Shawn and all his broken noses. His cauliflower ear. A semi-professional fighter in all kinds of fighting styles in his youth, Shawn is not a stranger to injury. Hell, in this very episode…he friggin’ bled all over the place from the side of his head! Not kidding…we were chatting away and he rubbed at a shaving injury. BOOM! It looked all Helter Skelter! Were Christopher not used to goofy, bloody injuries himself, he would have insisted on Shawn stopping and cleaning up…but Christopher’s only regret was that he did not get a photo of all the blood.
“What the hell?” you might be thinking? “This is no way to begin show notes for an episode!” But you have probably figured out by now that we are talking, this week, about sickness and injury…
We kick this episode off talking about our earliest memories of being sick or injured…before jumping to the sickest we’ve ever been. (Christopher apparently ate a shit sammich in Chicago in the mid 90s…)
Injuries. It’s not like we plan them. We discuss our most surprising injuries before talking about…surgery! Find out if we’ve ever had surgery and, if so…why we let someone cut into our bodies.
Medicine. Some say, “Great stuff — LOVE medicine!” Others…not so much. Find out where we stand on medicine and, if you’ve ever really wondered, find out what medications we take on a regular basis.
Many who are not fans of medicine push holistic cures even more quickly than the most prescription-happy doctor. Find out where we stand on natural remedies (although we probably just showed our hands with that last line).
Do we consider ourselves sickly or healthy? Find out before we jump to mental health. Is mental health an illness, or all in the heads of those who experience it? Find out where we stand on that and then…find out if either of us are hypochondriacs.
After that, we talk about the illness or injury that most terrifies us.
We close the episode out talking about our weirdest health boasts and what the future holds for illness and injuries.
Want to chime in? Feel free to talk about anything in this episode (or anything we missed that you wished we talked about) in the comments below…
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Holy pain train, Shawn… and here I thought I knew what pain was. DX
Redheads are known to experience physical pain more acutely than non-redheads. They’re are also known to be more stoic to pain, possibly to compensate. 🙂
A few highlights: As a baby I had a ruptured ear drum, and what my mother guessed was pneumonia (we were too poor to afford medical care). As a child, a series of agonizing ear infections. Tonsils out. My adenoids grew back. An extreme urinary tract infection, followed by a ureter re-implantation surgery. Life-long chronic allergies, and life-long endometriosis starting as a teen. Chicken pox at 16, my doctor said it was the worst case he had ever seen. At the peak of it, I was delirious and chunks of my scalp fell off, leaving bald patches (which fortunately grew back). Sunburns so serious my skin turned purple and peeled off in thick chunks. I accidentally weed-whacked my leg once. The commercials lie, my leg looked like a Tasmanian Devil tornadoed it. Food poisoning. Vitamin C-triggered ice pick headaches (very accurately named). A few panic attacks and a couple injuries from fainting. A couple gynecological emergencies in which the sickness and pain was so intense I thought I was dying.
I go to the doctor in a few days for what I suspect is fibromyalgia.
I consider myself generally healthy. 🙂
We should start a band. We could call it The Pain Train!
Dibs on the theremin.
You want theramin? Top this and you’re in the band! http://youtu.be/Mb9rXMip60Y
The drumstick down the pants move… still need to work on that one…