You guys seem awfully close to the actual situation, if not having touched on it already. I think I better bow out of further discussion since MattG put a gag order on at least a few people.
Myself I was down over the Holidays with a severe intestinal infection. Spent Christmas Eve and Day in bed. So, I am going with a gastrol intestinal infection.
Keep going ;-) Contest ends Monday at 9:00am (PST) Parallax Standard Time!
No one's got it yet, but I had to group some of my "favorites" thus far ...
Hysteria? A brain fever
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!
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!!!)
lead poisoning
Translation: you cut your finger.
We can rule out lockjaw. maybe cutanrous nodules of onchoceriasis...............
a hysterical pregnancy
Laughed so hard about something he shot food or drink through his nose.
Drank syrup of ipecac by mistake...
Did the emergency somehow involve Danny DeVito?
Propeller implant.......suffering from cpu defficiency - had a spasm and found himself in spin...not urgent ... just a normal subroutine operation.
Atrial fibrillation or flutter from the holiday stress and excitement.
Collapsed lung from Ken's working you to a frazzle.
Hernia from liftting Parallax's laser cutter.
Broken toe from kicking the laser cutter in frustration.
Lacerations from an errant Elev8.
Have we guessed gout yet? It's a fun malady of holiday excess, can be quite debilitating, can recurr several times of a short period and the medicine colchicine used to treat attacks has a wonerful set of side effects and an exciting way to let your body know it's had enough!!
Asthma attack brought on by soldering fumes? Concussion after a brawl with drunken father xmas's ? Xmas pudding coin choking episode necessitating Heimlich maneuver?
Slippage. The window was open overnight and dew formed on the slick floor. Matt does everything melodramatic - he not only fell, but he fell into the large box of non-standard non-released special not-for-sale random parallax-coated unknown components. When he stood up, his new body circuits punctured him in special places causing instant metamorphosis. Shocking but true, he's become an alien machine wandering the halls of Parallax in a zombie-like condition, muttering over and over again - "where is the return ship, where is the return ship..." Good thing it's only temporary. Right Matt? Matt? Matt?
Well, trying to sort out why Matt is going to be much better in 2013.. I begin to wonder if the incident has something to do with him becoming a father.
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Slipped and fell on ice, or tripped and fell.
Laughed so hard about something he shot food or drink through his nose. (It may not appear to be a medical emergency until you do it, it burns...)
Drank syrup of ipecac by mistake...
...suffering from cpu defficiency - had a spasm and found himself in spin...
not urgent ... just a normal subroutine operation.
Dave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy
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Keep going ;-) Contest ends Monday at 9:00am (PST) Parallax Standard Time!
No one's got it yet, but I had to group some of my "favorites" thus far ...
-MattG
Collapsed lung from Ken's working you to a frazzle.
Hernia from liftting Parallax's laser cutter.
Broken toe from kicking the laser cutter in frustration.
Lacerations from an errant Elev8.
-Phil
fell on a pair of scissors while running
accidentally cut yourself with a carving knife
while putting the final touch on the Christmas tree, you fell into it and recieved a severe electrical shock
while building a snowman, you slipped a disc
accidental ingestion of a foreign object
Got severely beaten up by Santa Claus
Improper use of crazy glue
Drilled a hole in your leg
Fell off the roof
Okay I give up
or, sorry, was it a condition that requires medical attention only if it lasts more than 4 hours?
-Phil
Painfull at best.....
No, I wait!! Vertigo!!!