Don't stick things in your mouth

Corbett | January 2, 2007 7:06 PM

The holidays kinda sucked. I got that loving feeling in my chest on the 23rd which can only mean the onset of a bad flu. Sure enough by the 24th, I was delirious and feverish, and by the 25th I was out cold, alternating between shivers and migraines. Bad. This unpleasantness kept me from doing anything except hallucinating and going to a Chinese hospital once my staff found me passed out on the sofa. In the "fever ward" it was the typical routine. Fill out papers, pay, wait, pay, wait, pay, wait, see a doctor for 30 seconds, pay, then leave.

One dramatic incident of note: The screening nurse took some blood, and pulls a thermometer out of a jar. I obediently stick it in my mouth. She shakes her head, says no no, and tells me to stick it in my armpit. So I stick it in my armpit, and in the back of my mind I'm thinking, God, please tell me they do sanitize these. When I gave the thermometer back, I watch carefully to see what she does with it. She sticks it back in the jar, 1/3 filled with water. No cleaning, nothing. Bleck, I can't believe I just stuck 100 sick people's armpit juice remnants in my mouth.

Category: Mr. Asia

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cyn

January 8, 2007 12:03 PM

oh, whew! for a minute there
i thought you were going to
say the nurse wanted a rectal
temp. HAHA!

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