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Myositis

Awhile back I saw my doctor for what I've been calling tendonitis. He clarified my diagnosis by calling it myositis. I looked that up when I went home and found it curious that the words "auto immune disease" were immediate following the words "Myositis is an". This was particularly curious because my doc gave me this diagnosis based only on my descriptions of my condition. No tests. The man didn't even touch me (hard to believe, I know).

I saw him again yesterday and questioned his diagnosis. He was like, "Oh, I was just using the word in a very general sense to indicate muscle inflamation and not refering to the common disease associated with the name." Oh right. Why would I have assumed he meant the most common usage of the term? Silly me.

Of course, now that I don't have some death-inducing disease I suppose I should return all the stuff I charged to my credit card and should probably tell my boss that I didn't really mean it when I called him a "whore-mongering son of a she-devil without a moral fiber in his being."