Adult Onset Adolescence: The adventures of being single and fifty-something: a widowed, empty nester who is too old to start a new family (as in having kids) but way too young to sit around playing bridge and waiting to die (Horrors!). So I have begun my second adolescence: college, dating, and looking for a new life somewhere between the by-gone idyllic family of four and the unknown future. It's a crazy world out there, and I hope to share my little piece of it with you.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
bat-shit crazy
Okay, so this adding links thing is not going so well. If you want to know the etymology of bat-shit crazy, go to the NY Times health link on the right and type Disseminated Histoplasmosis in the Search box and you will end up at the proper place. The big thing is that this disease, caused by a fungus found in bat (and pigeon) shit can cause changes in mental status. Thus bat-shit crazy. Pigeon-shit crazy just doesn't have the same punch. I guess that's why it never caught on. Plus bats are much more scary than pigeons.
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