I don’t mean for this to offend anyone with hypertension. But it is super boring to learn about.
I don’t like these “slow killer diseases.” I also find the cardiovascular system dull. Why? I don’t know. It must be my innate fear/repulsion with blood. I must hate it in every possible way, you see.
I prefer to learn about extreme diseases. Like, if MTV were to come out with a show called “X-TREME DISEASES,” the types of things that would be on it would look like this:
AAAAND sepsis. Compared to those things, the raising of your blood pressure due to age, obesity, and atherosclerosis that eventually causes heart attacks and stroke is just not fun to learn about.
I mean, I guess overall, I have a much greater interest in infectious disease. I blame my high school freshman English class for making us read The Hot Zone.
What’s it about, you ask? Ever heard of the ebola virus? Hemorrhagic fever? It’s about various outbreaks of ebola and it goes into gory detail about how people bleed out and die. Violently. There’s a whole chapters about a monkey strain too.
Why, Sycamore High School? Why did you make us read that?
At any rate, I now have an interest in the more grotesque diseases, although I’d rather not encounter them in real life. Please. I guess it would be more exciting than telling my hypertension patients to exercise, diet, lose weight, and stop eating salt.
Howdy would you mind stating which blog platform you’re using? I’m going to start my own blog soon but I’m having a hard time selecting between BlogEngine/Wordpress/B2evolution and Drupal. The reason I ask is because your layout seems different then most blogs and I’m looking for something unique. P.S My apologies for being off-topic but I had to ask!
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Definitely read The Hot Zone while in middle school.
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