Shelley Ensz Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 I know I don't have a corner on stupid things said in doctors offices, but some days I do seem to take the cake. Last week, I was very concerned because one of our family members suddenly had blood in their urine. So I called their doctor's nurse and excitedly said, "There's urine in their blood!" The guarded response of "Oh, really?" followed by a laugh being choked back was my clue that dys-talk-ia had struck again! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deb1million Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 Oh Shelley, you make me smile! I love the new term of dys-talk-ia! I seem to suffer from this at all the wrong times, too. My words come out in the wrong order, or I make an amalgam of 2 word as if my brain can't decide wich one to use, so makes up a new word. Recently, I couldn't decide whether to say smell or sniff, and the word smiff came out! doh! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
agilitygirl Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Thanks for the laugh. You both are good role models for being able to see the humor in our embarassing life moments. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sandy B Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Hi, I seem to suffer from foot in mouth disease too. Totally unrelated to scleroderma, I was recently at my employer's house and he was grumbling about an ongoing problem with his computer. I quite innocently said 'It's enough to make you pull your hair out' and he turned looked at me over his glasses and very dead pan replied, 'Well I would if I had any'. Yes you've guessed, he's bald, oh but would the ground open up and swallow me up!!! Carry on smiling, Sandy B Quote Link to post Share on other sites
enjoytheride Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 I was just at the doctor's to have an EKG and they had attached those electrode patches all over. I was trying to remove a blouse when I felt one of them move over quite a bit. I told the technician that I thought I had knocked it loose but as I felt it I realize that the thing was still stuck to the skin but that my -hmm- extra padding had actually moved. So I told her that I was wrong- the pad had not shaken loose, that I had. She thought that was very funny- she did get the point immediately. :/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NorthStarHope Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 My famous saying of all time, although not said at the doctors office, was "I bess I getter go" instead of saying "I guess I better go." My husband never lets me forget it. Just thought I would share that. I am always one to make up these new words! :rolleyes: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Patty Arche-Hueck Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Thanks for the laugh! I was born and raised in Cuba, so I would like to say I am fluent in Spanish, and English, and I understand some French, Portuguese, and Hebrew, do not ask me.. my family is from everywhere in the globe, so sometimes my computer meaning head gets messed up especially later after the lupus and the scleroderma, when I have to translate from English to Spanish, something that happens very often here in Miami. I always found myself talking English with the Spanish speaking person and Spanish to the English speaking,. Thank goodness their faces or their laugh makes me stop and fix it. Hugs, Patty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DawnBreakk Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 One of my co-workers was sharing with me that he was going for a Blasting Flood test.. :emoticon-dont-know: I started laughing .. what he was trying to say is that he was going for a Fasting Blood test. We still laugh about it. I told him it sounded like he was going to a protologist at first. Dawn Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jeannie McClelland Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Laughed my woolly socks off! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Joelf Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 What a scream, Dawn, it's so easy to tie your tongue round your tonsils!! I received a letter from my rheumatologist detailing the consultation we had; whoever typed his letter obviously couldn't read his writing as they'd typed "fibreoptic" instead of "fibrotic"! :emoticon-dont-know: Perhaps he meant I was lit up like Blackpool Illuminations!! ;) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
enjoytheride Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Today I visited a PA for help organizing my care. He was asking about my symptoms of which there were many. He then asked me about the rash on my face. I said "what rash!", clamping my hands to the side of my face. Then broke out laughing because the image of Munch's The Scream flashed into my mind- you know the painting where the man has his hands on the side of his head and his mouth open in a scream. I so identified. I came home and still can not see this "rash." Maybe what I really need is new glasses. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uknlv18 Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Not doctor related, but when I first came to England to visit my now husband, he took me to London to see the sites. We had been all over on the subway and what not and got out at the Houses of Parliament and were standing there looking at it. I looked up and saw this HUGE clock and thought to myself "Oh my goodness, that is one BIG clock", then I very seriously turned to Charlie and said "Wow, that is one big clock, isn't there supposed to be some famous clock called Big Ben, where is it at?" He looked at me kind of funny and said "Well, you're looking at it!" I have never lived that one down. Jean Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stillriding Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Hospital related: First porter turned up at my hospital room with a wheel chair to take me for an X-ray. I looked at him and told him, "no thanks, I'll walk". He looked flabbergasted and actually said " I don't think I can take you if you don't sit in the wheelchair, no one has ever walked before!". I told him to push his own wheelchair and I walked next to him. Second hospital porter: This time I needed the wheelchair (muscle biopsy OUCH). Me:- "Wow you must have had a hard time learning your way around the hospital". Porter:- "It has taken a while but I now NEVER get lost". After ten minutes of waiting in the reception room I realised he had left me in the wrong department/ wrong floor at 5pm when they're all going home. I was not going to miss my MRI so I asked a complete stranger to wheel me to the correct place. Hmmmm :emoticons-line-dance: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Joelf Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Hi Stillriding, Welcome to these forums! Hmm....I can see why you wouldn't be asking a hospital porter the way around the hospital again; perhaps there are lots of other patients still sitting around in the wrong place waiting for their appointments?! ;) Do post again and let us get to know you. :emoticons-group-hug: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Amanda Thorpe Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Hello Stillriding Welcome to the forums! At the Royal Free I have experienced unpleasant porters and one really great one. I've seen him many times and he's marvellous because he is pleasant, friendly and dignified which means he treats you with dignity. Take care. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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