Examples of Health ironies

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Ironic Questions: Health

Is It Ironic That...?

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1) ... my dad had a heart attack on mothers day
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2) ... I have chronic allergies to lemon trees, yet own a field full of them?
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3) ... I pinched my finger while closing the First Aid kid box?
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4) ... I'm wearing a "Frankie says relax" shirt on the day that I'm going to the doctor to receive care for my strained and tense lower back?...
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5) ... On the hunt for painkillers for my headache I caught my hand on a razor in my drawer and sliced it open, leaving me more in need of painkillers...
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6) ... A friend is waiting in line at the police station, and is reading a poster about "drug identification". One of the photos shows a "cocaine kit", a little wallet size bag that has compartments for a vial, a mirror, and a razor blade. She expresses surprise and dismay, saying, "who would manufacture this kit and where would you buy such a thing?!" I wondered why she was at the police station. The reason she's at the police station is to purchase a license to sell alcohol....
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7) ... the Boston Marathon bomber was brought to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...
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8) ... A person going to the gym to climb a stair master takes the elevator to the gym instead of the stairs?...
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9) ... the health department does not offer its employees health benefits?
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10) ... The pollen count is so bad this year that crackheads are trying to convert their meth back to sudafed...
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11) ... I was creating a poster representing health today whilst suffering from migraine...
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12) ... A morbidly obese man was diagnosed with diabetes, but shortly after the diagnosis, he ate 20 bags of sugar?...
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13) ... I'm digging in my purse to find my glasses but can't find them because I can't see?...
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14) ... I find the short walk to the gym more exhausting than the walking I do on the treadmill once I get there....
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15) ... Researchers at Harvard Medical School have reported that salt consumption triggers autoimmune disease in mice and certain human immune cells. Some scientists now theorize that salt consumption my lead to diseases such multiple sclerosis and psoriasis. I've had a run of tough luck recently (career, divorce, health, etc.) My list include an autoimmune disorder. I told my friend about the research, and that I would be giving up salty foods. He responded with a reference to the Morton Salt slogan. "Good Lord, when it rains, it pours." Was his response ironic? Seems so to me....
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16) ... A researcher working on spinal cord injury is diagnosed with a rare case of spinal cord tumor! is this ironic?...
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17) ... an oncologist is diagnosed with cancer
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18) ... Two weeks after joining a suicide and depression club on campus I have surgery leaving a "down the stream" incision on my wrist?...
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19) ... Up until the 1960s, gas masks - made to preserve your lungs - contained asbestos?...
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20) ... The Heart Attack Grill's unofficial spokesman dies of a heart attack outside restaurant?...
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21) ... I have to have a heart monitor fitted on valentines day?
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22) ... after brushing my teeth, I then found a toothbrush bristle stuck in my teeth?...
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23) ... A old woman with an oxygen mask calls her grandchildren and says not to smoke while smoking multiple cigars....
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24) ... my pay gets docked for having too many sick days when it is work that made me sick in the first place?...
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25) ... My mom gets me to search all over the house for her cigarettes and I finally find them sitting on top of the book she was reading - the encyclopaedia of family health....