The patient in Room 412.

Dr. Roberts took a deep breath and prepared to enter the hospital room to inform the patient that she could go home.

This should have been a simple task. Normally it was and it made him smile to give his patients the news he knew made them happy.

However, this time was going to be difficult. It wouldn’t be so if he could stop laughing .He had to, before he entered the room. But every time he thought about the reason the patient was in the hospital, he started laughing again.

If only he hadn’t heard the nurses talking about what had happened to the unfortunate lady. He had stood there pretending to read several charts while he listened to the most ridiculous thing he had heard in years.

It seemed that a friend had asked the lady if she would take care of her new dog while she was away for a few days

She had just gotten the dog and didn’t want to leave it alone just yet. She had agreed to do so and her friends�?husband had dropped the dog off in the yard without going into the house as he was in a hurry.

A few minutes later, she had gone to the door and there stood this dog looking in the door at her. The dog had what could only be described as an evil face. Its lips were drawn back from its teeth and it looked as though it wanted to attack her.

She became very nervous, although the dog did not growl and just looked at her through the door. It did whine to come in though , so overcoming her trepidations, she opened the door to let him in.

The dog followed her back into the kitchen where she was preparing supper and sat down, still with the evil look on its face.

She tried to ignore it and went about her work. She thought if she gave the dog some water and food that it might stop looking her as though it wanted to bite her. Every time she glanced at the dog, there was that look. She could hardly measure her rice or flour her chicken without dropping it.

If she left the room for a few minutes, she would turn around and there the dog would be following her. She wished her husband would come home, but she knew he would be late this evening.

She was beginning to get really unnerved. Still, she finally finished cooking and sat down to eat.

And that’s when the trouble began.

The dog has disappeared, so she started to eat the rice and chicken dish she had prepared. Just as she swallowed a bite of rice, the dog suddenly appeared beside her chair.

The rice would not go down. It just stuck there.

She grabbed her glass of milk to wash it down- to no avail. So she went to the cupboard and grabbed some baking soda, and putting a little in a small glass of water downed that in the hopes it would dislodge the rice.

Her husband walked in the back door to find his wife of forty years foaming at the mouth and the ugliest dog he had ever seen in his life looking up at her! He panicked and called an ambulance.

She was still foaming at the mouth when they saw her in emergency. After they checked her vitals and looked into her throat they gave her a sedative and she went to sleep. The next morning the ER nurse explained that she had had an esophageal spasm brought on by nerves and asked her husband if she had had this before.

He said no, and described the scene he had walked in on a few hours before.

The nurse tried as hard as she could not to laugh in his face. She left the room as quickly as possible and collapsed into laughter at the nurses station.

That’s when Dr. Roberts had overheard their conversation and for the life of him, could not stop laughing. It didn’t help that when he told his colleagues about it, they couldn’t stop laughing either.

But what really did it was the photo the husband had on his cell phone of the dog. He had shown it to him right before he was to go in and let his patient know she could go home.

This is what he saw:

He sighed and trying his best, walked into the room and said�?Mrs. Finklesten, you can go home now.�?/FONT>