Will the voices in my head start using real words, please?

You know how some people get songs stuck in their head? Can’t stop thinking them, can’t stop humming them, can’t stop saying the lyrics under your breath? Actually, I think that happens to everyone. It certainly happens to me. At the moment, I have the theme to “Boston Legal” stuck in my head, which is particularly annoying, as the only lyrics are “Bow, bow, bup-bow-uh-booooowww-wup!”

A Google image search yielded this. I do not remember this episode, but it looks awesome.

Anyhow, unlike anyone else I know, I get words and phrases stuck in my head, too. Not from songs, just memorable snippets of random sentences that I hear. Yesterday, it was “sodium barbitol”. A while ago, it was “pulmonary edema”. I seem to recall “mio-cardial infarction” making an appearance too.

You know how it’s particularly annoying to have a song stuck in your head when you only know a couple of lines in the chorus and have to make up or hum the rest? And then everyone in the supermarket stares at you?

“Ce-le-brate good times COME ON! Some-thing, doo-dit dit-dah… What?”

Well, not knowing the meanings of the phrases in my brain is a lot like that. I have no idea what “sodium barbitol” is, or even if I’m spelling it right. “Sodium” is a chemical element, its symbol being “Na”. “Sodium chloride” is table salt, and “sodium pentathol” is that drug that’s supposed to impair your ability to lie, although these days it’s mostly used to execute people. (Dead people can’t lie, so one could argue that its effect hasn’t changed.) But “sodium barbitol” could be anything. Maybe I’m spelling it wrong, and the person actually said “sodium Barbie-doll”.

“We have ways of making you talk.”

“Pulmonary edema”? No freakin’ idea. I know what Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation is, so if I subtract “cardio” (meaning heart) and “resuscitation” (meaning bringing the dead back to life), I can deduce that “pulmonary” has something to do with the lungs, or the chest, or the hands (of the resuscitator, not the resuscitatee), or making out with a dead guy. And as for “edema”, I’m stumped. Maybe it’s Spanish for “demon”.

I’m not even going to try with “mio-cardial infarction”. I’m pretty sure you don’t want to have one, but that’s all I’ve got.

My point is that I watch way too many medical dramas.



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