if they come in threes i'm hiding under my desk

[dragonlady7]

Another coworker, not the one whose uncle is missing in the tornadoes, has been out of the office all week. What happened?
On Friday his mother went to the hospital complaining of abdominal pain. She had no existing health issues, really, but she wasn't real young. A cousin who drove her called her son, said they didn't know what was wrong, it hurt so she was getting it checked out, but it was probably no big deal.

Forty minutes later she was dead on the operating table: it was an aneurysm of the aorta and the abdominal pain had been caused by the pooling blood in her abdominal cavity.

Holy crap.

I'm just gonna hide under my desk the rest of the week.

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[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't do that; with the week you've been having, the desk will probably collapse on top of you!

Aortic aneurysms are quick killers. By the time the patient has symptoms, it's often too late to save them. They're readily fixable if caught before they leak, but that requires luck (such as getting a CT scan for something else, and incidentally discovering the aneurysm).