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Cyberchondria: the misuse of the Internet by people who mistakenly believe that the information they find is sufficient to make a self-diagnosis.
Ya'll, Big Daddy it a total cyberchondriac. He will go to site after site, checking his symptoms and assuming the absolute worst. Let's say, for instance, that his glands are swollen. After checking with 30 sites, he would come to the absolute determination that he has lymphoma. Because look! It's listed it on all 30 sites.
He becomes completely obsessed, then he gets annoyed with me because I don't have all the faith in Dr. Web that he has. He wants to talk to me about his life insurance and what I should and shouldn't say about his illness when he's lying in the hospital bed unable to speak. When I don't take him seriously he thinks I don't care. Of course I care. I will care all the day long when someone WHO ACTUALLY ATTENDED MEDICAL SCHOOL tells me there's something wrong.
Yesterday he went to his parents' cardiologist for a physical. They told him his cholesterol is high and his triglycerides are off the chart. They ordered a CT scan to find out why he's having headaches and jaw pain. I went with him to that this morning, you know - so someone would be there with him WHEN THEY FOUND THE BRAIN TUMOR.
God knows I love 'im, but he certainly does provide some quality entertainment now and then.
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4 comments:
You are very witty and I enjoy your blog
Thank you, but I'm not allowed to accept compliments from people who comment anonymously. You see, acknowledging you pisses off the people who COMPLAIN anonymously, whom I refuse to take seriously.
Hope hubs feels better and the test results are all okay!
Les~
Oh my God, this is my mom, too. She was just telling me the other day that according to the internet, that little chest pain she had a couple of weeks ago is either "the worst kind of angina -- the one that can lead to a sudden heart attack" or "lung cancer or something". Gah!
Either that, or she'll demand a diagnosis from ME, when hello! I have a degree in JOURNALISM, Mother. We didn't actually cover chest pain in Broadcast Copywriting 101, believe it or not.
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