My leg has just fallen off. Would glucosamine help? 

Health is important. This is, of course, why, in the event of illness or accident, many people would prefer to seek the advice of a group of strangers on the internet rather than do something so revolutionary as see a doctor. While the queue at the local casualty department may be so long that by the time you get to the head of it you will have either died or got better, an x-ray is still a better method of telling whether it was broken (as if having magically developed an extra knee was not a fairly obvious hint in itself) than asking someone who has never met the casualty or seen the injury and has no medical qualifications other than an auntie whose best friend was a midwife in the Great War. There is, however, the danger that a suitably qualified professional might suggest something totally unacceptable (such as “stop climbing and rest it for a few weeks”), and so a steady stream of the sickly and semi-crippled will continue to seek medical advice on the forum, where they will receive a bewildering variety of suggestions from leeches to magnets and feng shui and, of course, glucosamine. According to the forum, you can cure anything with glucosamine. Even death.

Just see a doctor. And while you’re waiting, here’s a garlic-and-horse-dropping poultice and some glucosamine.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 at 2:30 pm and is filed under Extracting the urine. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.