So… November 20, 2008
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So this guy walks into an auto repair shop.
“Can I help you?” asks the counter clerk.
“It’s broke! IT’S BROKE!” screams the customer. This scares the clerk, who backs up. The customer becomes agitated and then crumples to a lifeless heap on the floor.
When he came to the ER, he was completely unresponsive. EMS was able to intubate him without any sedation at all, and even when being prodded with all of our needles and intruments he remained totally unresponsive. CAT scans showed nothing unusual. He had no known health problems at all: he simply walked into an auto shop and tried to drop dead.
He went to the ICU. There he lingered for a full two weeks with no changes. Over the course of a few hours one day, he began to hemorrhage, bleeding from his eyes, ears, and other assorted orifices. Ultimately he coded and died.
Weird.
This sounds suspiciously like the opening scene of a movie.
If you see Dustin Hoffman, run like hell.
ebola probably…would have been pretty cool to see though.
Oh, and I picked up a copy of The Historian. I’ll probably start it after the holidays. Thanks for the tip, it looks good!
I’m with Sarah, that sounds frighteningly like the course of ebola.
Seriously. Weird!
Strange. Stories like these make medicine interesting.
I hate it when I’m out around town and people try to drop dead in front of me. It’s so inconvenient.
I agree with the “movie intro” scenerio. Although it sound like a possible intergalalctic parasite to me. Watch out!
Sounds like a House episode, except House would have had an epiphany five minutes before the end of the show and given him Pop Rocks* and saved his life.
*Or something
When it is my time, I hope it is MY time — no lingering…I just really want to drop dead. Hopefully I will have destroyed my heart and lungs just enough to do so before I get Alzheimer’s (not to make light of that man’s trial or tragedy..it was weird and very sad, but perhaps a blessing? Hopefully your Ick-U team was able to keep him without pain until he passed). BTW…THE HISTORIAN WAS A FANTASTIC READ…couldn’t put it down.
I’d love to be there for the post mortem… Most decidedly NOT ebola.
He’s Dead, Jim…. and I’m a doctor, not an auto mechanic, damnit!
I doubt it’s Ebola, although I’ll admit I’m far from an expert. The two week thing is very strange. Sounds like something from The Andromeda Strain.
Ebola has a incubation period of days, not weeks.
Marburg, on the other hand, a close relative to ebola, I believe has a week or so incubation period. I could be wrong though.
I agree with Aaron. I’d love to see the post-mortem report.
So I was reading this and really thought it was going to be a joke (so this guy walks into an auto repair shop, right?)
And then the guy dies.
I still laughed a little for some reason…