I am grateful to Miriam Lippel Blum, editor of the CKD Blog Report, for this citation to a journal article about the role of humour in recovery in renal patients.
SVEBAK Sven;
KRISTOFFERSEN Bjørn;
AASARØD Knut
As of this publishing, I have not read the article yet - but hope to before my borrowing rights at the university library run out. Will report back if successful.
This reminds me of what I used to tell people about an heriditary disease even more frightening than that which was causing my kidney problems.
What could be worse than what I had, they'd respond, what with the dislysis, sticking EPO injections into my leg, and so on.
Then I would tell them:
BALDNESS!
(Cue scary background music)
At this point, my conversation companion would inevitably be retreating out of the room whilst facing me.
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Image credits:
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The image of the Clown Doctors is from the website of The Clown Doctors
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The image of Elmer Fudd is from the website Smasher.net
