Remember those times that I missed the obvious? Remember how I mixed up 'pubic', and 'cuticle'?
facepalm.
I'm still occasionally discovering new embarrassingly obvious facts that I've managed to never understand, but it would simply be selfish to talk more about myself.
I want to make you all feel a little less embarrassed about something outrageous that you've said or mixed up by relating a mix up that someone distantly connected with me made a while back.
In saying that we are distantly connected, I mean the far off connection one has with someone who gave birth to and/or raised them. But, I digress.
The aforementioned, unidentified person to whom I refer has had very serious back and neck problems from birth. During a surgical procedure her doctor, who was unaware of these conditions, positioned her neck in such a way that caused a lot of pain and problems when she awoke from the surgery.
While having a consultation for a follow-up procedure she made sure to mention to the doctor (who happens to be one of the most stoic, refined, and conservative people I've ever met), that she has genital fusion in her neck, so they would need to be a bit more careful.
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Unsure looks, and and awkward silence were finally broken by
Genital versus congenital. With the possibility of fusion going on here, I feel like we would need to be pretty sure about which we were speaking.
Thank goodness it was quickly cleared up, or the doctor may have thought he had a medical phenomenon on his hands.
Is it naughty that I find so much comfort in the fact that my blunders are less hilarious than these? I mean, we have also had to make sure she is very conscious of using the words 'sacrum' and 'scrotum' in the correct context.
Very confusing. Also, I hope I still have a family now.
