You might think you’re having a bad day. Things aren’t going
well at home or at work. Your cat ran away and no one on the internet has been
able to locate it for you. Your kids are misbehaving at school and no one on
the internet has any good answers. Your boss is an idiot and he noticed that
you mentioned that fact on the internet. You have slow internet.
Hey, you may have even voted by mail already, and had to
write your own name in for president because, even with no political experience
whatsoever, you’re still the most qualified name on the paper.
Whatever it is, I understand. Things look bleak.
But it could always be worse. Your bright side? Flaming
surgical laser farts, of course.
A headline in my news feed yesterday caught my eye and once
again proved that Japan is still leading the league in weird.
Tokyo, Japan - Woman
passes gas during surgery; suffers burns, causes fire in operating room
A woman passed gas
during a surgical procedure, sparking a fire in the operating room and even
caused her to be seriously burned, according to the Miami Herald.
A fart bomb lit an operating room on fire, and the only U.S.
news source to cover the story was the Miami Herald? Hey, New York Times, take
a five-minute break from the mon-crap-strosity that is the election and focus
on some news we can all appreciate.
The fire happened in
April at Tokyo Medical University. Reports say the patient, who was in her 30s,
was undergoing an operation which involved applying a laser to her cervix.
“Applying a laser to her cervix.” Ouch. Even if this story
didn’t involve serious burns in an operating room fire caused by a giant fart,
you are still having a better day than anyone getting a laser applied to their
cervix. I don’t even know where my cervix is, but I damned sure don’t want a
laser pointed at it!
And this happened all the way back in April? Why on earth didn’t
the news reach us until now!? Is it because
everyone involved was embarrassed and tried to keep it quiet, or are the
Japanese just trying to keep all the weird to themselves? Either way, not cool,
Japan. Not cool.
According to reports,
the laser is believed to have been ignited by the gas she passed. The fire
burned much of her body, including her waist and legs. Her condition is
unclear.
I am not making that up. Laser-ignited fart fire.
A spokesperson for the
hospital said, “When the patient’s intestinal gas leaked into the space of the
operation (room), it ignited with the irradiation of the laser, and the burning
spread, eventually reaching the surgical drape and causing the fire.”
So given the translation of events from the Japanese hospital’s
Flatulence and Anal-Related Trauma (FAART) department spokesperson, I am left
with two possible – both awesomely nightmarish – scenarios.
Scenario One: The patient was gassy enough over a long
enough period of time that the operation room was filled with methane, which
was then touched off by the cervical laser, igniting a mushroom cloud-like
explosion that charred everything inside the blast zone.
Scenario Two:
The gas was accidentally lit at the source, creating a
laser-ignited butt flamethrower that had enough internal pressure and firepower
to then light the “surgical drape” and everything else ablaze.
(Note to the eventual producer of the mini-series: I like
Scenario Two better.)
Wow. Either Japan doesn’t have the “No eating for forty-eight
hours ahead of major surgery” rule, or this unfortunate woman ignored that rule
to her severe detriment. While “Weaponized Anus” would obviously be a great
name for a rock band, it’s not a smart thing to bring to your surgery.
Anyway, I hope this helps. You may have thought you were
having a bad day, but when you put it into perspective with a flaming surgical
laser fart, you’re doing great!
Get well soon, flatulent unnamed thirty-something Japanese
patient. And for goodness sake, stay away from any more ignition sources.
See you soon,
-Smidge
Copyright © 2016 Marc Schmatjen
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