Leg Pain

Sent October 25, 2007

A guy wakes up in the middle of the night with a terrible pain in the leg. He calls an ambulance. The ambulance attendant takes one look at his leg and says, "My gosh! This is serious! We'd better get you to the emergency room right away!" So they rush him to the ER.

The attending physician takes one look at the leg and shouts, "We have to operate immediately!" So they rush him into the OR and start giving him anesthesia.

Next thing the guy is aware of is, he's waking up in the recovery room next morning, and there's a doctor leaning over him, looking very grave.

"Sir," says the doctor, "I... er... um... I have some bad news and some good news. Which would you like to hear first?"

"Gosh," says the man groggily. "I guess the bad news."

"Well," says the doctor, looking more serious than ever, "Er... um... what with all that rushing around last night, we... um... well, I'm afraid we amputated the wrong leg."

"What! That's terrible!" the man cries. "But wait... what was the good news?"

Now the doctor finally brightens up. "Well," he says happily, "It looks like the other leg is getting better on its own!"