Monday, February 15, 2010

FROM PAUL (A.) - HIS OWN TRUE STORY

I went to the doctor's for my annual physical.

The nurse started with certain basics. "How much do you weigh?", she asked.

"135," I replied.

The nurse put me on the scale. It turns out my weight is 180.

The nurse asked: "Your height?"

"5 feet, 6 inches," I answered.

The nurse checked and saw that I only measure 5 feet, 3 inches.

She then took my blood pressure and told me that it's very high.

"Of course it's high!" I screamed. "When I came in here I was tall and slender! Now I'm short and fat!"

She put me on Prozac.


Look it up, but, as Stephen Colbert says, not in a book.

8 comments:

  1. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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  2. An elderly man went into hospital, and they stripped him and covered him in lard.

    After that he went downhill very quickly.

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  3. very droll, pluralist (and Paul A. And Susan, if it comes to that)

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  4. Adrian! Please leave the stage.

    Cathy, in real life, the description doesn't fit Paul at all.

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  5. That's funny. I had a friend who went to dr. She had been overweight for many years and had received quite a few lectures from her dr every time the scale inched up. As the nurse was checking her in, she told her to step on the scale. My friend said, "no." After a few more attempts, the nurse said, "you're kidding, right?" My friend said, "no you can look at me and tell I'm fat and that is all you need to know," She then marched into the dr's exam room. They were never able to convince her to weigh.

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  6. Two Auntees, that is too funny. I love it. What went into the medical records? The patient is too fat? Or perhaps, "The patient is overwieght."

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  7. I often say, "I weighed last time and things haven't changed in that department. Besides, I'm here on an entirely different mission. Please take my blood pressure." My blood pressure has never been above 120/80. That usually calms them down about my weight.

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  8. Cathy, in real life, the description doesn't fit Paul at all

    Oh I didn't think it did! It's a good story, though ...

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