DUMB GUY DISEASE

I'm reminded that I have it. It resurfaces every so often. It's not like Mad Cow Disease, but Dumb Guy Disease can be pretty embarrassing. I have had episodes before, and I've always sworn, "I'm not doing that again!" Of course that's one of the symptoms of Dumb Guy Disease.

I started to see the symptoms coming on late Friday night. I ignored them. I had a massive fever. My wife declared, "You are on fire!" She was nervous. If you have dumb guy disease your natural instinct is to just shake it off. If you will it away, it will go away.

Throughout the night I had a fevor, followed by shivering, all of the tale tale signs that something wasn't right. So did I go to the E.R. on Saturday right? Of course not, not if you have dumb guy disease. No I waited until I was a mess on Sunday morning. In agony I decided to consult a medical site on line. I punched in my symptoms and found out that if medical treatment isn't sought quickly enough up to 3 percent of the patients can actually die. All I had to see to wake up from Dumb Guy Disease was to see the word "DIE".

Which reminds me of my all time favorite episode of Dumb Guy Disease. It look place in Apollo Beach Florida. It was a Friday night (sound familiar?) and I was feeling awful. I was at home curled in the fetal poisition. I stayed that way for much of the weekend, until finally declaring on Sunday that I wanted to either go to the hospital or simply die. I was pretty bad off, and had an emergency apendectomy. I also developed pnemonia. I came close to dying and ended up in the Intensive Care Unit. I recovered, put on some weight, and gained some strength and went back for a follow up with my doctor. He said to me "Did you learn your lesson? Next time you won't wait so long right? Maybe you can tell all your other guy friends that it's stupid to wait so long to seek medical attention!" He shook his head as he was giving me this admonishment.

So this morning I woke up with the chills, and what appears to be an upper respirtory infection. Oh and I'm still dealing with my other earlier medical ailment, that got me on this tangent. So guess where I'm heading later this morning? Yes I've learned my lesson. I'm going to see the Doctor. But that doesn't mean I'm cured. The Dumb Guy Disease will be back with a vengence, I don't know when, but I can almost guarentee it.