http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010 ... flaili.php
I hope the doctors will be able to fix him as expertly as the team of cardiologists who patched up Dennett's aorta in 2006.That's not a heart! It's a flailing Engine of Destruction!
Posted on: August 23, 2010 2:04 PM, by PZ Myers
My day began well enough. I'd gotten up early, got some writing done, and was headed into the office to do some prep work for classes, which start this week. My phone rang just as I had my key in the office door — which was cutting it close. My office is an AT&T dead zone, and a few more seconds and I would have been in blissful obliviousness for the rest of the day. It was my doctor's assistant. I will paraphrase her words slightly.
"We just got the results of your tests from last week. Your heart is a shriveled black lump starved of charity, decency, charm, and kindness," she said, "a gristly godless clot of marginally functional fibers. You need to go back to Abbott for more tests, and the doctors want to crack your chest and marvel at you."
"So what else is new? My students are used to that and expect me to be lashing them with fear and pain starting Wednesday…and my black heart is an asset to this job," I said. "Maybe I can pop in for these tests this weekend. Any chest-cracking can wait for the end of the term and Christmas break, when I wouldn't be using my heart anyway."
"No," she said, "now."
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There may be an interruption in the blogging for a wee bit.
If I'm supposed to be traveling your way in the next month or so, there will probably be a change of plans. I'll be in touch with people next week when I know more about my course of suffering for the next little while.
Meanwhile, relax, chill, don't panic, and most importantly, don't waste your time with prayers. Ever.
I'll be back while convalescing, and will be even more heartfully cranky than ever.
. And then when they come back, they can 
damn thing.
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