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176 I'm digging in my purse to find my glasses but can't find them because I can't see?...

177 I find the short walk to the gym more exhausting than the walking I do on the treadmill once I get there....

178 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....

179 A researcher working on spinal cord injury is diagnosed with a rare case of spinal cord tumor! is this ironic?...

180 an oncologist is diagnosed with cancer

181 Two weeks after joining a suicide and depression club on campus I have surgery leaving a "down the stream" incision on my wrist?...

182 Up until the 1960s, gas masks - made to preserve your lungs - contained asbestos?...

183 The Heart Attack Grill's unofficial spokesman dies of a heart attack outside restaurant?...

184 I have to have a heart monitor fitted on valentines day?

185 after brushing my teeth, I then found a toothbrush bristle stuck in my teeth?...

186 A old woman with an oxygen mask calls her grandchildren and says not to smoke while smoking multiple cigars....

187 my pay gets docked for having too many sick days when it is work that made me sick in the first place?...

188 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....

189 That cigarette company supports a losing lung cancer program.

190 my 6 month old daughter who can't crawl yet has been diagnosed with walking pneumonia....

191 I had a patient who came to counseling every week for 6 months with concerns she would run our of money before she died and during this time she was diagnosed with terminal cancer --the money never came into play....

192 the word lisp is something someone with a lisp quite probably could not pronounce correctly?...

193 on a box for medication that the doctor prescribed me for nausea and vomiting, nausea and vomiting were listed as side-effects....

194 My Doctors name is Mr Pain?

195 Is it ironic that something that could have killed me (a deep vein thrombosis) might have also saved my life by preventing large pulmonary emboli resulting from a 2nd deep vein thrombosis from passing intact through the first deep vein thrombosis' scar tissue?...

196 a group of physician assistant students develop deep vein thromboses while sitting for an extended period of time, studying the subject of peripheral artery disease?...

197 that a person becomes too ill to have an operation that will make them better...

198 I work out in a Krispy Kreme T-shirt and a T-shirt with an NES controller on it?...

199 an ambulance runs someone over and kills them

200 Is it ironic when a restaurant that serves fattening, artery clogging food (fried chicken) financially supports funding for Diabetes research and treatment?...