students'+funny+recounts

After being in Australia for a few years I learned to speak English quite well but there are some words that sound the same in English and Portuguese but mean very different things. One example is when I went to the family doctor because I had a runny nose for many days and I wasn’t getting better. I told the doctor my problem is I am constipated which in Portuguese means a runny nose. The doctor told me to eat fruit especially prunes and bran, which I thought was a very strange way to fix a runny nose. When I explained this to my husband he laughed and told me what constipated means in English. When I went back to my doctor I told him about the confusion he laughed and said I was lucky I didn’t give you a suppository, you might have put them up our nose! He is still my family Doctor and we still enjoy a joke! By Lana Suppository: a small dissolvable medicated solid, a medicated mass that melts at body temperature, designed to be inserted into the rectum, vagina, or urethra
 * __ Just a head cold! __**