Today I was teaching my highest level intensive class about microbes. I teach reading comprehension and pronunciation. We learned about the good and bad things that they do, what they are, and how they function. Then we needed to go through the text and pull out specific information. One of the items in the text was about how microbes are responsible for the production of vitamin K in the body. The main purpose of vitamin K, as explained the the book, was blood coagulation.
As we went through looking for information from the text, one of my students fell behind writing down her list. She didn’t know what vitamin microbes produced.
I said,"Vitamin K".
She said, "Spelling, please."
I said, "V-I-T-A-M-I-N K"
She writes "V-I-T-A-M-I-N", then pauses and asks what the next letter is.
"K!", I say.
She looks at me, confused, and starts to write, "C-A.-K-E".
I tell her " No, not Vitamin Cake! Vitamin K!"
Confused, she writes, "K-A-K-E!"
"No, just K!" I explain.
Finally, she understands what everyone was saying and writes "Vitamin K". However, for the rest of class, I keep laughing every time I think of "Vitamin Cake, the most delicious of all vitamins."
I picture this syringe filled with diluted cake being shot directly into someone’s arm and I can’t stop chuckling to myself.
Imagine how amusing the dialog on dreadful Emergency room shows would be if there was such a thing:
"Nurse, this man needs a shot, he’s got almost no vitamin cake in his system! Get me 500cc of pure cake now!"
"But Doctor! That much cake might kill him."
"Just inject this man with a double fudge cake until I say so damn it!"
Hell, I’d watch that.
