Absurd World
Book in Hand: Little Black Book of Short Stories by AS Byatt
Song in Mind: Kung Wala Ka by Hale
Absurd Story # 1
Location: Philippines
A woman sued a hospital for leaving used gauze inside her "puerta" after giving caesarian birth. Said woman gave birth three weeks ago, and had been conscious of foul odor coming from her nether regions. Being her first time birthing, she thought it was just part of the post-pregnancy adjustments she has to make. She said it truly smells like a dead rat and she was given to changing her underwear a lot and copious vaginal washings just so not to puke. (Eww...) Yesterday though, she found the tail end of a gauze used to stopper blood during her caesarian operation dangling from her delicate parts. She pulled at it, some couple dozen inches long, and it was horribly decomposed. Unfortunately, there is no Malpractice Act in the Philippines, so she has to make do with filing class act suit for gross negligence.
Absurd Story #2
Location: Japan
Ever heard of the Suicide Club? It's this huge webring where young Japanese people are getting together online to discuss how they are going to go through their suicide. Some of them even decide to do it together, simultaneously. Hay, these crazy kids. They treat suicide as if it's a game. The land of the Harajuku gets weirder by the second.
Absurd Story # 2
Location: Ireland
A man rants about how he was stopped by the Dublin Gardai for walking the city streets with just his socks on. He says his shoes were really worn down, and he decided to give it to a cobbler to see if the leather thingies were still resurrectable. So he did what he thought was logical, he handed his shoes to the repairman and walked home. Turns out there's an actual law about walking the streets shoe-less in Dublin.
Question Number 1: What happpened to that sensible thing of putting the old shoes in a brown bag and putting on slippers, boots, ballet shoes before going to shoemaker? He can't be so poor as to own only one pair since he hacks away at the computer, obviously.
Question Number 2: Gads, I can't even formulate question number 2 because it's still screaming out the question of why not do the sensible thing of putting old shoes in a brown bag and putting on slippers, boots, ballet shoes before going to the shoemaker?
Absurd Story # 4
Location: United States of America
Katie Holmes loves Tom Cruise, will have their love child. Blooming, expectant, happy.
Absurd Story # 5
Location: Philippines
Girl was rushed to the hospital a few days ago due to chest pains, difficulty of breathing, numbness of shoulders, and throbbing headaches that seems to spread from her nape to the skull. Cute ER doctor observed patient for 5 hours and notes down normal ECG pattern, normal blood count, but unusually high blood pressure. Sent her home for further observations labelling her illness as either neurological or anxiety-driven and asked her to come back for neurological testing. Girl's Health Insurance refuses to cover the expenses because they say it's psychological and not covered by company expense. How was the Girl to know she was having anxiety-fit??? Not clinically insane yet, you idiots. Doctors counters medical outfit by stating chest pain was caused by secondary angina caused by pent-up stress and anxiety, and did he look like a shrink to him??? (Oh, grateful to you forever, cute Doc) HMO concedes and allows transaction.
Breakdown apparent. The girl stayed at home for the last 3 days, recuperating frayed nerves. Cure? She has no friggin' idea.
Obvious enough, the girl was me.
Song in Mind: Kung Wala Ka by Hale
Absurd Story # 1
Location: Philippines
A woman sued a hospital for leaving used gauze inside her "puerta" after giving caesarian birth. Said woman gave birth three weeks ago, and had been conscious of foul odor coming from her nether regions. Being her first time birthing, she thought it was just part of the post-pregnancy adjustments she has to make. She said it truly smells like a dead rat and she was given to changing her underwear a lot and copious vaginal washings just so not to puke. (Eww...) Yesterday though, she found the tail end of a gauze used to stopper blood during her caesarian operation dangling from her delicate parts. She pulled at it, some couple dozen inches long, and it was horribly decomposed. Unfortunately, there is no Malpractice Act in the Philippines, so she has to make do with filing class act suit for gross negligence.
Absurd Story #2
Location: Japan
Ever heard of the Suicide Club? It's this huge webring where young Japanese people are getting together online to discuss how they are going to go through their suicide. Some of them even decide to do it together, simultaneously. Hay, these crazy kids. They treat suicide as if it's a game. The land of the Harajuku gets weirder by the second.
Absurd Story # 2
Location: Ireland
A man rants about how he was stopped by the Dublin Gardai for walking the city streets with just his socks on. He says his shoes were really worn down, and he decided to give it to a cobbler to see if the leather thingies were still resurrectable. So he did what he thought was logical, he handed his shoes to the repairman and walked home. Turns out there's an actual law about walking the streets shoe-less in Dublin.
Question Number 1: What happpened to that sensible thing of putting the old shoes in a brown bag and putting on slippers, boots, ballet shoes before going to shoemaker? He can't be so poor as to own only one pair since he hacks away at the computer, obviously.
Question Number 2: Gads, I can't even formulate question number 2 because it's still screaming out the question of why not do the sensible thing of putting old shoes in a brown bag and putting on slippers, boots, ballet shoes before going to the shoemaker?
Absurd Story # 4
Location: United States of America
Katie Holmes loves Tom Cruise, will have their love child. Blooming, expectant, happy.
Absurd Story # 5
Location: Philippines
Girl was rushed to the hospital a few days ago due to chest pains, difficulty of breathing, numbness of shoulders, and throbbing headaches that seems to spread from her nape to the skull. Cute ER doctor observed patient for 5 hours and notes down normal ECG pattern, normal blood count, but unusually high blood pressure. Sent her home for further observations labelling her illness as either neurological or anxiety-driven and asked her to come back for neurological testing. Girl's Health Insurance refuses to cover the expenses because they say it's psychological and not covered by company expense. How was the Girl to know she was having anxiety-fit??? Not clinically insane yet, you idiots. Doctors counters medical outfit by stating chest pain was caused by secondary angina caused by pent-up stress and anxiety, and did he look like a shrink to him??? (Oh, grateful to you forever, cute Doc) HMO concedes and allows transaction.
Breakdown apparent. The girl stayed at home for the last 3 days, recuperating frayed nerves. Cure? She has no friggin' idea.
Obvious enough, the girl was me.
oh dear, are you okay now?
ReplyDeletedo you have the source for the lady who found the gauze inside her "puerta"? I kinda need it. thanks!
ReplyDeleteI watched it in TV Patrol the same day I blogged about it. I'm not sure if it came out in newspapers. But it probably did.
ReplyDeletesorry i can't help you more than this...