Wednesday, 17 June 2009
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Conundrum
‘Conundrum’ - noun:
1. A riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun.
2. A paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem; a dilemma:
It’s a stretch, but go with the flow, will you? At least humor me because I’m an old guy. Here’s the thing:
Several months back I started getting pain in the URQ (honest – that’s how the doctor charted it) – Upper Right Quadrant (somewhere in the Alpha Quadrant near Betazed, I think). One night the pain was so bad I finally went in to the ER and had them take a look at it. Gall Stones was the preliminary diagnosis, but a very tentative one. The doc doing the ultra sound didn’t actually see any stones.
He did say it looked like a boy – just kidding.
So he scheduled me for a more comprehensive ultra sound, and that resulted in the conundrum. You’ll know what I mean. The second scan confirmed the results of the first one – no stones – and therein do it lie, the problem. I still have that doggone pesky URQ pain. The tests say nothing is wrong, yet the discomfort persists, and here I sit with mixed emotions: happy on the one hand that there don’t seem to be any gall stones, yet not so much because I’m still in pain, and there doesn’t seem to be a reason for it.
And so in the Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, it’s back to the hospital today for some sort of ink-blot test where they put me under, pump in some ink/dye and watch to see if my gall bladder can write the great American Novel with it.
Or not.
In which case, I think the plan is to yank it, and replace it (we can rebuild him – we have the technology) with a custom designed rebuilt chrome plated USDA approved – oh hang on – wrong solution here. They just yank it. But not today.
Anyway, kick-off is scheduled for 11:45 EDST, just under three and a half hours from now.
Maybe when I wake up they’ll let me have the cuppa I had to skip in preparation for the knock-out drops.
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