I'm still waiting for Al Gore and his henchmen to begin the crusade against the Mongolian Gerbil hordes. So far, not a squeak. And this week, I found further evidence that going green is actually hazardous to our health.
My niece, who lives in Kansas, is back in Utah with her husband for the holidays. Her husband started getting a sore throat and within a day he was in intensive care at the hospital.
According to the doctors, he had an advanced case of strep throat that had spread and attacked his epiglottis; that little flap of tissue that closes off the passage to the lungs when we swallow food. In his case, the tissue had swelled to an enormous size, and was practically shutting off his airway all the time. They were worried that it was going to close completely and he'd suffocate.
Didn't sound all that fun to me.
As it was, the doctors were amazed that he was able to keep breathing with the infection as bad as it was. Most people with that degree of swelling tend to croak. (Hey, that's the best pun I've had in minutes, and even I didn't even see it until I went back to proof read. I don't know where they come from, it's like a gift or something...).
The Doctor asked him if he was originally from Kansas and when he was told that he grew up in Utah, the doctor said, "Oh, that explains it. Years of living in the valley and adapting to the constant inversions have strengthened the tissue of your epiglottis and improved your response to respiratory distress. That's how come you were able to keep moving the swollen tissue to breath."
In other words, if it hadn't been for the inversion, my niece's husband would probably be dead. Instead of destroying the human race as Al continues to insist, it may be adapting us into a race of super humans, able to breath when lesser men would keel over and die!
Global Warming indeed.
Death to Gerbils!
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