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TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME: THE
EXHIBIT Toxic Protection / Confidence
Shock / Talkin' Toxic / Diabetic Hyperosmolar Syndrome |
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'Humble Suggestions
for Reid and Pelosi' ...by Adam McKay I'm out of practice dealing with
good political news. It's been a bit of an overload these past two days. It's
kind of like getting a letter from my doctor informing me that I can now
suddenly windmill dunk a basketball. I almost hesitate to bring up the House
and Senate victories to people for threat they might inform me I feel asleep
near some model glue with CNN on and the whole thing's a Testor's-induced
hallucination. We.... won the House.... and the Senate? And Rumsfeld
resigned?! And Bush said he's meeting with Democrats?!!! It's so wonderful
I'm a tad suspicious. Okay, here's what I think Bush and Rove cooked up. I think they figured that we were all in shock from winning the House and, at the time, likely the Senate, and they thought "Hey, this pony ain't used to the sugar. Let's put him into toxic shock." And so they had Rumsfeld resign. It was an attempt to overload us with goodness so we'd all faint from joy and injure ourselves. I'm telling you... And they had no idea how close they were. I almost wrecked my car driving west on the 10 from whooping when I heard Bush announce Rumsfeld's resignation. If Bush had then gone right to Cheney announcing that he was coming out of the closet my head would have exploded and Bush would have won. Brilliant I tell you. |
In the above example,
found at michaelmoore.com, Adam McKay describes his happy disbelief after
hearing so much "good political news." He presents a humorous scenario in which Bush and Rove, realizing
their political opponents were "in shock" after winning the House,
try to intensify that shock, to the point their political opponents end up
injuring themselves by "fainting from joy."
Not only does toxic
shock syndrome not resemble "fainting from joy," when someone
"faints" from too much sugar (as mentioned in the above example), it
is actually related to diabetes, specifically diabetic hyperosmolar syndrome,
as described on the Mayo
Clinic website:
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Diabetic hyperosmolar
syndrome. If your blood sugar level tops 600 mg/dL, the
condition is known as diabetic hyperosmolar syndrome. When your blood sugar
gets this high, your blood becomes thick and syrupy. The excess sugar passes
from your blood into your urine, which triggers a filtering process that
draws tremendous amounts of fluid from your body. Left untreated, diabetic
hyperosmolar syndrome can cause life-threatening dehydration and loss of
consciousness. Diabetic hyperosmolar syndrome is most common in older adults
with type 2 diabetes. |
Obviously, "Hey, this
pony ain't used to the sugar. Let's put him into diabetic
hyperosmolarity," doesn't have quite the same ring to it as "toxic
shock." But then again, since
enterotoxins pouring into the bloodstream are what cause toxic shock, perhaps
that syndrome should be renamed "hyperenterotoxin syndrome." What do you think?
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