Apparently, Nurse Houlihan's shenanigans have had an adverse effect on the radiologist taking the x-rays. They are either very blurry, or my feeble eyeballs are bouncing too fast to focus.
At any rate, the suspect has been apprehended, and the files have been recovered. Dr.s are working at a fevered pace to solve the mystery...amputation is enevitable...

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I zink zat zee mahavalator is in zee wronk dingleheimer!! letten us tryn zee vatchamakallit proceduren: LukesVette2006-10-05 18:22:55

Interns Manny, Moe, and Jack have been reported as being "very nervous" about the outcome of this patient. It has come to light that they may know more than they let on(regardless of what their IQ tests show). They seem to remember the possibility of a lung transplant in this patient, but ether abuse has rendered the three of them null and void in the matter.

The attending proctologist has been heard to be leaning toward a diagnosis of "worms" in the patient.
In reference to Dr. Lukenheimer's tests, Dr. Poopshoot seems to believe that these "worms" are long dead, victims of the aforementioned botched lung transplant, possibly before the patient was adopted by her un-natural parents.

Speculation runs rampant in the waiting room, and a call to Administrator Shinoda only returned a sharp "I don't know what the h@#l is going on down there!!!"

I would still like to see a picture back away a bit.  Show some more surrounding area and perhaps the other end of some of these wires, or somewhere they are coming from or going to.

After perusing the Xrays and waiting through my hi tech Xray machine powered by AT&T dialup(ugg), I've come to the conclusion of AFTERMARKET!!! Pic 5 shows that gray wire spliced to the correct green which combined with the other green identifies those arteries as front right speaker wires. The brown and black(perhaps dark gray) appear to be left front speaker artery remains. Test the blue for power, it appears to be connected to either the orange or pink/black hot courtesy light wires. I see the orange light delay hanging there, trace the wires back into the mess and see what goes where. With this said, my regular nurse(wifey) is out of town for a week so I need to conduct interviews of young nurse students to fill in till next week. I will probably be busy for a while.  Dr Kapp

The line forms at the rear... Adams' Apple2006-10-05 21:20:50

"Doctors, I think we're going to need some restraints out here in the waiting room...the patient's guardian is now huddled in the corner, squatting down with his arms wrapped around his knees and he's kind of rocking back and forth and muttering to himself and all I could hear was something like...."

'frickin' frackin' doctors...first one tells me to shut the whole 'lectrical system down or I'll be a crispy critter and then the other one says no I gotta test for power and then the third is some kinda furren guy and he's demanding my 'papah's' and I don't think he means license and registration and then the fourth guy, he wants me to take X-rays further back from like some place across the street and I heard them whispering about a 'proctologist' and they were laughing and making all these weird poking motions with their hands...and now I think I see worms crawling on me!...and I know they're sizing me up for something terrible because one of 'em said 'lung transplant' and I think they're trying to fool me because another one of 'em was saying that I must be hallucinating and all that's really there are some plain old innocent 'speaker wires' and I know they're not because I had my whole head under there and it was all dark and scary!! And now there's spiders dancing with the worms!! And that Spielman guy, he seems like he's not really one of 'em but I seen him with that mop and that bucket TWICE now and I don't even want to KNOW what horrible medical experiments they're doing back there but I heard what I'm SURE was a brake pad squealing like something AWFUL was happening to it!!!...and I haven't seen that nice nurse lady ever come out of that broom closet since she went in there with that intern......frickin' frackin' doctors...'

Vun flew eazt, vun flew vest, vun flew over zee cuckooz nezt!   Ve are all in a schpicle heeya! If everysing verks und zere ist no powa at any timen to any oven zee vires, amputate!

LukesVette2006-10-06 05:31:04

"Doctors, the patient's guardian says he's feeling MUCH better this morning, after the electroshock therapy you prescribed for him last night. I told him I was sure that the convulsive twitching would probably go away after a while..."

"He said to tell you that he's sorry he overreacted...he knows you're just trying to help his baby get all better...and that he didn't really mean that crack about how 'the guys down at JiffyLube would know what to do...'. That was 'just the nitrous talking', he says..."

"So now that he's back on his feet, he's wondering what you want him to do. He can reinstall the patient's battery...can explore the current under-dash condition in even greater depth himself...will take additional long-distance X-rays...attempt to trace wires, even though he says they just disappear behind the dash...but he'll see if he can ID them from the left hand side...he says he's even willing to call the NCM and request one of their specialists to consult on an emergency basis, if you want a colleague's fifth (or is that sixth??) opinion..."

"He's worried that you're all going to take off for a long weekend's worth of golfing, martini-drinking and monitoring your stock market portfolios, and that his 'l'il baby girl' will be left in intensive care, still hooked up to those IV tubes with STP in them..."

"So he's wondering 'if the hospital has a dynamometer, and would that do any good in diagnosing this extremely puzzling condition that seems to have the profession's top vetterinarians so stumped'--??"