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It's time for a CONTEST!!!

Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
edited 2013-03-28 23:21 in General Discussion
Hey all - it's CONTEST TIME!

The rules are simple:
Guess what medical "emergency" I experienced over Christmas and New Year's!!! You need to be very specific.

There are TWO of you that are immediately disqualified from entering and YOU AND I BOTH KNOW WHO YOU ARE ;-)

The prize is some little trinket or something I'll "pull out of my sleeve" :thumb:
-MattG
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  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-03-23 21:16
    DOH! You never let me have any fun!

    Further, I suppose I'm also forbidden to tell someone and spit the prize?

    MattG's edit: no spitting erco.
  • davejamesdavejames Posts: 4,047
    edited 2013-03-23 21:21
    ...ummmmmmmm - kidney stones?
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-03-23 21:33
    Matt spoiled my Saturday evening twice in a matter of minutes.

    Makes me wanna spit.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2013-03-23 21:34
    My first guess was a kidney stone, but Dave beat me to it. In any event, if that's what you pulled out of your [ahem] "sleeve," I don't want it!

    Hmmm. Christmas and New Years. ... Excessive indulgence brings on what? Gout? Liver failure? Nah! I don't think that's Matt's style.

    I think I will go with anaphylaxis, from consuming something he didn't know he was allergic to -- twice. That's my final answer, and the prize better be good!

    -Phil
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-03-23 21:40
    First prize: An Arduino!

    Second prize: Two Arduinos!

    Just kidding, I know PhiPi is a huge fan of C. NOT!
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-03-23 21:50
    Matt Gilliland wrote: »
    Hey all - it's CONTEST TIME!

    The rules are simple:
    Guess what medical "emergency" I experienced over Christmas and New Year's!!!...

    Choked on a finger cot?
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2013-03-23 23:14
    Beat me to this one...
    davejames wrote: »
    ...ummmmmmmm - kidney stones?
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2013-03-23 23:57
    Frostbite... of course!
  • Don MDon M Posts: 1,652
    edited 2013-03-24 00:21
    Is it when you had the incident with the quad on your workbench and had to have your lip stitched back together?

    Edt: And to be specific you were working on an Elev8, plugged in a battery and it took off coming at you. Your lip got cut by one of the spinning blades and you had to have it stitched back together. Had you not been wearing eye protection you would have possibly been injured more severely. Is that specific enough?
  • doggiedocdoggiedoc Posts: 2,243
    edited 2013-03-24 04:59
    I'm going to throw a guess out here and say you suffered through a root canal. That's my final answer.
  • RS_JimRS_Jim Posts: 1,766
    edited 2013-03-24 06:17
    Gaul bladder attack?
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2013-03-24 06:20
    Since my first two guesses were taken, I'll go with appendicitis.
  • PJAllenPJAllen Banned Posts: 5,065
    edited 2013-03-24 06:50
    tonsilitis
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2013-03-24 07:04
    RS_Jim wrote: »
    Gaul bladder attack?

    I have a gall bladder removed.. maybe that took the wrong thing.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2013-03-24 07:06
    Hysteria? A brain fever?
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2013-03-24 07:13
    Situation-specific amnesia caused by a rapid blood sugar increase after consuming donuts. It's actually happened to you more than twice, you just don't remember!
  • xanatosxanatos Posts: 1,120
    edited 2013-03-24 07:23
    I'm guessing that you either broke a tooth or lost a filling or crown. I'm doubting kidney stone (spitting?) and anaphylaxis is not minor at all, so yeah... Tooth or crown.
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2013-03-24 07:34
    I was going to guess broken/chipped tooth also, or maybe Matt just accidentally took a drink of something he shouldn't have.
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2013-03-24 07:39
    Salmonella from a bad batch of egg nog. (if you add rum, it still doesn't kill off the salmonella, it's just happier salmonella!!!)
  • idbruceidbruce Posts: 6,197
    edited 2013-03-24 08:35
    lead poisoning
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2013-03-24 08:43
    While working on the ______ project, using the ______ machine, you unexpectedly cut your ______ !
    Then, you swore up and down, you'd be more careful with your prized item and never stick out your frickin ______ again!

    Translation: you cut your finger.
  • PropabilityPropability Posts: 142
    edited 2013-03-24 09:10
    Dislocated joint- probably shouder.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2013-03-24 09:12
    We can rule out lockjaw. maybe cutanrous nodules of onchoceriasis...............
  • ratronicratronic Posts: 1,451
    edited 2013-03-24 09:15
    Just a guess but happens to me sometimes - low blood sugar.
  • Invent-O-DocInvent-O-Doc Posts: 768
    edited 2013-03-24 09:16
    Either a hysterical pregnancy or a fractured coccyx?
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2013-03-24 09:26
    It is looking more and more like a Gaul bladder attack... after all he is of French origin, isn't he?
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-03-24 09:39
    Loopy Byteloose wrote: »
    It is looking more and more like a Gaul bladder attack... after all he is of French origin, isn't he?

    Maybe an unmitigated gaul bladder attack?
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,392
    edited 2013-03-24 09:40
    Matt's 2013 Christmas will be one he wants to remember. After two years of pre-Christmas surprises he's really due for a positive family-oriented time off. This year we will probably quarantine Matt in a safe environment, hire a transport service to get him to/from Parallax, and hire a taster for all meals. If you figure out his Christmas 2012 "event" you'll see why 2013 is going to be a banner Christmas for MattG. But I don't think the 2012 incident had much to do with Parallax (really, I'm not just supposed to say that because of worker's comp issues).

    Matt, are you expecting some kind of magical insight here among the forumistas? Seems it would almost take a news leak for them to guess. . .about your pregnancy, ahem, I mean the alien abduction thing.
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2013-03-24 10:22
    cataracts?

    He's the right age.. (Although I had mine fixed at 39)
  • doggiedocdoggiedoc Posts: 2,243
    edited 2013-03-24 10:30
    Ok, one more stab... food poisoning. Final, final answer.

    Paul
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