We had a guy that we took care of this week because he came in with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his lung. Yeah, he shot himself but not with the intent to kill himself, just to get attention; a "cry for help" as he put it. There have got to be better ways for getting help, but nevertheless he was admitted to the hospital for depression, got some pain medications, and got his hydrocele surgically repaired so I guess it worked (A Hydrocele is a very uncomfortable disease of certain man parts). As with all patients that a doctor sees, we have to ask them a whole bunch of questions, and especially in the Psych Ward we see a lot of drug abuse so we ask a lot of questions about drugs. When we asked this guy if he did drugs he told us that he only did marijuana "once in a blue moon". When pressed further on that he admitted that he smoked a bowl of marijuana (not a joint, but a bowl) once a week and it helped with his vision (which it doesn't).
So in case you're wondering, "once in a blue moon" for this guy means once a week. (In case you're still wondering, a blue moon means either having 13 full moons in a given calendar year or having 2 full moons in the same calendar month. The 13 full moons one is much rarer than the 2 ful moons one).
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A BOWL of marijuanna? Are you kidding me? K- the whole gun shot wound to the lung now makes perfect sense!
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