Study vacations are here again, and at around 3 am this morning, the already minuscule "common sense" area in my brain decided to call it a day. As I sat there reading Orthopaedics, I decided suddenly, after 21 years, to try out that whole 'learning-by-doing' thing.
I therefore stretched out on the floor, and attempted to bring my right knee to my left shoulder. A rational person of course would tell you immediately that this was not possible. But these are study vacations. I havent been rational in a while now.
This test is apparently positive in a person with ankylosing spondylitis, where it causes pain. What kind of sadistic psychopath comes up with tests like these anyway? The only way this wouldnt hurt someone was if they were comatose.
I, unfortunately, was not. So as I lay there writhing in pain, I decided that I either have ankylosing spondylitis or I fractured a bone or two while attempting to check.
Either way. I'm going to go find myself an Analgin now.
