I have been diagnosed... with tuberculosis.
Yeah.
TB.
That one.
It all started last Monday in Spanish class - we were working on our projects in the library. Well, my computer had been left on over the weekend by some kids working on a PowerPoint about a disease. I knew, via information from my sister, that it was Mr. Safranek's 7th period science class. So, I added a slide with a message from me telling the boys to close thier stuff when they leave. A week later...
Apples and Kumquats Babe had been expecting this message because I related the above story to them. They figured out what disease the people were doing: Tuberculosis.
Now, onto the symptoms of tuberculosis:
- chest pain
- fatigue
- trouble breathing
It usually affects thin people...
And a quote from Wikipedia: "TB was romanticized in the nineteenth century. Many at the time believed TB produced feelings of euphoria referred to as "Spes phthisica" or "hope of the consumptive". It was believed that TB sufferers who were artists had bursts of creativity as the disease progressed. It was also believed that TB sufferers acquired a final burst of energy just before they died which made women more beautiful and men more creative."
Well, that's exciting.
And another wierd thing: Guess what was happening right around February 16th, 2007?
The 2007 tuberculosis scare.
4 years ago
6 comments:
okay, so do you actually have it?
Obviously! Heart palpitations, check. Trouble breathing (when a certain someone is around...), check. I dunno about chest pain and fatigue, but feelings of euphoria? If her general state of existence tells us anything, this sure is true...
No Kelsey, not literally. Metaphorically.
haha that's GREAT! and no, she would be dying.
Oh darn. i was wondering why she was still at school.
ouch is right! Who said that? Grumpy people who don't like euphorical people like mo= bad. Mo= good. Glinda the good witch! I'm being random today, aren't i... Haha!
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