Who’s a hypochondriac??
Jennifer said she used to be a hypochondriac but now the fear of finding out she had a disease eclipsed her need to go to a doctor 24/7. She said she touched every inch of her body that she could reach. Alexis wondered what part of your body you couldn’t reach. The swine flu scared Jennifer but in this country no one had died from it yet so that made her feel a little better. Alexis wasn’t worried about it but she was being a little more cautious about washing her hands and not touching anything. Sherry, a nurse, was a hypochondriac. She thought she had lockjaw from a scratch from dirty metal. She thought she was dying but the doctor told her she had a pimple on the inside of her jaw and it was blocking her salivary gland. She got a tetanus shot. Paulie played a funny PSA from 1976 about how contagious the swine flu was. Alexis said some illnesses were annoying unless you actually had them – like Lyme disease. She said Martha got it when it was really popular, so it was still unclear i
