May is never an easy month for me. I’m superstitious anyway, but these 31 days, I become even more so, and it’s been that way since I was 15. For a lot of minor reasons, and two big ones, I do not care for the month at all.

For starters, on 15 May 1997, I slipped into a coma. The shunt which drained the cerebral spinal fluid from my noodle clogged, and I nearly died because of the ER’s incompetence. My neurologist at the time performed a Third Ventricular Ostimy (essentially, they drilled a hole into my brain). The year prior, I broke my arm when my friend, Alvin and I went fishing, and my senior year, two of my classmates died in a car accident. The first time I was ever robbed (I deliver Pizza for a living) was in May.

Needless to say, I don’t have a particular fondness for the month, and I’m always aware of the days. Any other month, I have to look at a calendar. With May, my internal clock just knows. I’m tense (more so than usual) for 31 days. Again, I’m superstitious.

Well, I’d already decided to write about my second brain surgery before I came across this. Tl;dr, a woman had a runny nose for five years after a car accident. Her doctors told her it was just allergies. Let me repeat, she had a runny nose for five fucking years, and her doctors didn’t think that out of the ordinary. When she finally convinces someone to test her. Guess what? It wasn’t fucking allergies. It was Cerebral Spinal Fluid.

I’ve been down that road too many times, with doctors not believing me (or my parents) when I tell them something, but all my shit stayed inside. This chick was leaking Cerebral Spinal Fluid. Would it really have been too goddamn much to ask to run some fucking tests, you arrogant sons-of-bitches?!

Patient at yearly check-up: I’ve had a runny nose for a few months.

Doctor: It could be allergies. If it doesn’t clear up in, say, another month, schedule another appointment, and we’ll run some tests.

It is literally that fucking easy!

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Also, if this doesn’t make of Destry’s WTF 5 in the near future, I’ll be shocked.

Until next time, I leave you with this WTF 5 video: