"Unexplained weight gain"
I laugh every time I think of those words on a doctor's letter nearly three years ago. It's funny because my weight gain at that time wasn't all that mysterious: I was eating too much and moving too little.
I think we humans are always in search of an explanation. If we can't find one, we make one up.
And when there is no explanation, as in the case of my whacky eosinophils? Doctors explain it away with one simple word: idiopathic. It means "of unknown cause," or, in med-speak, "Hell if I know."
Keep this word in mind the next time someone asks a difficult-to-answer question. "How did this house get so messy?" "Why are our sales down for November?" "How did you get so brilliant?"
Simply shrug your shoulders, put on that enigmatic smile and say, "It's idiopathic." You might just get away with it.
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