Huntington's is rare, but--once you know someone with it, even if your acquaintance is through, say, a fictional character in a book, what you learn is so memorable, so distressing, so horrifying, that it sticks with you. forever.
and i didn't even touch on the fact that following the liver biopsy, the inadvertent patient was not made to lie quietly on his right side for two hours. there are damned good reasons for this precaution. but i'm guessing the immortal house is immune to all those scary little complications.....
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Date: 2007-11-21 05:01 pm (UTC)and i didn't even touch on the fact that following the liver biopsy, the inadvertent patient was not made to lie quietly on his right side for two hours. there are damned good reasons for this precaution. but i'm guessing the immortal house is immune to all those scary little complications.....
here i go again. shutting up now.