Head-Scratching Complaint Of The Night

Chief complaint: allergic reaction.

Suspected allergen: Tomatoes.

Exposure: Tomato paste, used in making a pot of chili.

That the patient made himself.

Using the tomato paste he keeps in his pantry.

That he says he is allergic to.

That he keeps around anyway, and regularly consumes because, well, he just lurves the taste of ‘maters.

This is how something that was dispatched as an anaphylactic reaction gets written as a psychiatric call, boys and girls.

And no, the patient had zero signs of an allergic reaction, not that he’d have been any less crazy if he had.