“Self-Diagnosing Swine Flu Right Before Finals Blues”
Via EphBlog, I was alerted several months back to Williams College freshman, Juliana Stone, and the weekly column she writes for a paper back home in L.A. about her first year away at college. She’s effing funny (if she’s a Williams student, should I be calling her ephing funny?), in a dry, cranky sort of way. Her second-to-last piece, The Freshman: Self-Diagnosing Swine Flu Right Before Finals Blues, is worth your time.
I think I have swine flu.
I called my radiologist dad at Torrance Memorial Medical Center seven times the other day to tell him I thought I had swine flu and to make him explain how he knew I didn’t have swine flu, and what would happen to me if I did have swine flu and it went undiagnosed.
He told me to stop calling.
I went to the campus health center recently because I actually was sick, and the nurses did a strep culture. But they wouldn’t test me for swine flu – even though I’d diagnosed myself online – because I didn’t have a fever. Or any of the other symptoms. And they probably didn’t want to encourage my totally out-of-control hypochondriacal tendencies. They told me to stop going on WebMD. More…
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