Well!

What would it be like having unexplained symptoms and having to wait for doctors test results? Not nice I suspect. Like some Schrödinger’s cat in a indeterminate state of well being. You know something is wrong but not how wrong. I could imagine the self perception of the mystery illness swinging between mild inconvenience to certain death during this period of indeterminacy.

Perhaps such periods in our life should be given a name – Schrödinger’s diagnostic syndrome or Quantum like heath outcome latency period.

Now imagine after several weeks of not going to the doctor, the doctors tutting, waiting on test for diseases that only have bad outcome and finally waiting for the test results. People don’t wait well, especially concerning bad news.

Waiting for the test results. Waiting in the docs waiting room. Kids with coughing and rubbing there snot on the charis, old people looking grim leaving equally underisable body fluids on the furniture, reading that article in National Geographic (one giving the negative impact of global warming on your part of the world over the next 50 years would set the mood nicely).Finally your name is called.

The doctor fiddles with a sheath of papers and looks over some radiologists handy work and then he (or she) looks at you.

“Well everything seems fine”. “Have you had a change of lifestyle recently?”. “I would recommend a bit more exercise and perhaps these pills will help if it re-occurs”. “If not come back and see me again”.

Wow.

I would imagine after that sort of stress I would go straight out and buy a new computer….and maybe evaluate the global warming thing and where I was going to be living in 50 years…….

Live long and prosper.