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HYPOCHONDRIA and Its Discontents; This is not your ordinary memoir about confronting serious illness. For one thing, it's got too many illnesses. For another, it has too many jokes
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When I was 12 years old my classmate Kenneth told me that if your
urine smelled funny after you ate asparagus it meant you had cancer
of the larynx.
This frightened me, even though I did not, technically, know
where the larynx was. Kenneth said it was the "stomach bone."
After worrying in silence for a week, and probing gingerly for
signs of an enlarged stomach bone, I finally screwed up my courage
and asked my mom, who informed me that some people's urine smells
funny after they eat asparagus and that it doesn't mean anything
bad. So I owed Kenneth one. It proved easy. Kenneth was not a ...
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