Deborah Harrell wrote:
>
> --- Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <snip>
> > "The guy mind doesn't believe in medical care. Guys
> > will generally not seek
> > medical treatment, for themselves or for others,
> > except in clear-cut
> > situations, such as decapitation. And even then,
> > guys are not going to be
> > 100 percent certain. "Let's put his head back on
> > with duct tape and see if
> > he can play a few more innings," is the prevailing
> > guy attitude." ~ Dave Barry
>
> <LOL>
> One of my friends told me about trying to get her
> husband to get in to the doc's because he was having
> some chest pains - he said he had to finish his work,
> that he couldn't possibly leave the site unsupervised
> for at least 3 more days, and it wasn't that bad
> anyway... Fortunately, it turned out to be acid
> reflux instead of his heart. :P
My friend's father, who is downright *phobic* about hospitals and
doctors, was experiencing some symptoms my friend thought might be a
heart attack. Both his parents pooh-poohed it, but my friend called
911, and if he hadn't, his father would have had his heart stop when
there *wasn't* the equipment handy to try to restart it. (He flatlined
between the original hospital the EMS took him to and the
heart-specialist hospital in the same city, but they got him going
again, and he's still alive.)
Julia
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