Filed under: Weird but true"Could you be pregnant?" If you're a woman of child-bearing age, it's one of the first questions you'll hear when you need medical treatment.But 71-year-old granddad John Grady Pippen was never asked that question, for obvious reasons, when he visited an Oregon ER. So he was surprised when his discharge paperwork carried a surprise diagnosis. "Based on your visit today," it said, "We know you are pregnant." When John started having stomach pain, I'm sure that pregnancy was the furthest thing from his mind, given his age and, oh, his gender.An errant keystroke was blamed for the error and John was never actually treated as a pregnant patient, which means he wasn't forced to swallow any of those giant-sized prenatal vitamins or to lay on a table with a bursting bladder while an ultrasound tech rubbed goo all over his belly. I'm sure John's getting plenty of chuckles out of his story. Did you have a surprise pregnancy? How did you find out? Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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