Do doctors make the worst patients? I’m sitting in my hotel room in Utah with ice on my elevated right knee. Torn ACL, chipped bone on my tibia, and possible torn lateral collateral ligament. Yippee, everybody dance now!
After skiing for four fabulous days, I fell at Snowbird while doing nothing and twisted my knee. […]

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 17th, 2008 at 12:30 pm and is filed under Patient Behavior, Bones & Muscles, Pain. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

“I’m walking on sunshine, Wooah, And don’t it feel good!” Remember Katrina and The Waves? Oh, you don’t? So many one-hit wonders. I don’t know if it would be worse to never have a big song or to think you have it “made in the shade” and then never walk on sunshine again. […]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 5:39 pm and is filed under Health & Wellness, Bones & Muscles. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Jewish dance master Steve Weintraub gave a workshop on Yiddish dance to Klezmer music. When I entered the Beth Israel Synagogue for the very first time, I had no idea what Klezmer music was, but I did have some idea of Yiddish dance-well, only because I was Motel the tailor in Fiddler on the […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 6:40 am and is filed under Bones & Muscles, Pain. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Does Rush Limbaugh have a neurological movement disorder and Oxycontin withdrawal? When he mocked Hillary Clinton’s emotional talk during the New Hampshire primaries, his body movements were jerking around as he did when he mocked Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson’s Disease. Why is he so polarizing?
Most Americans I know respect the opinions […]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 5:01 pm and is filed under Bones & Muscles, Blood, Rheumatology, Kidneys. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Hayden Panettiere, the auto-regenerating cheerleader from Heroes, is Ms. Paparazzi Queen! You know you’re hot stuff when you’re filmed and photographed while getting a mani-pedi. On one episode, while painting her toenails, Hayden cut off her pinky toe to see if it would regenerate— which it did, just like a starfish!
Now, I’ve […]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 at 4:29 pm and is filed under Bones & Muscles, Pain, Neurologic. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

“I’m on hold,” is something all of us have said. With companies facing increasing demands but less profit, we’re being put on hold everywhere. Even on the computer-help chat rooms, I’m put “on hold” sometimes for 30 minutes– which isn’t so bad because while waiting I can play Solitaire and read the latest entertainment pages. […]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 at 5:09 pm and is filed under Bones & Muscles, Pain. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Lily Tomlin was electrifying at the Paramount Theater! I’ve never really known her one-woman shows or really appreciated the Laugh-In clips I’ve seen. I’m sure some of you are groaning, “Sigh, it was before his time!” I can relate. I groan at people born after 1980 who don’t know or appreciate Rogers and Hammerstein or […]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 at 6:28 pm and is filed under Bones & Muscles, Pain. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Sanjaya Malakar on American Idol makes little girls cry… and the judges (especially when Paula is spaced out)… and America. He kind of reminds me of an Asian Indian version of Michael Jackson. All the girls scream and cry because “He’s so sensitive and sweet!”
I like Sanjaya. Okay, he isn’t the greatest thing since […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 at 4:30 pm and is filed under Bones & Muscles, Pain, Women's Issues, Men's Issues. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is one of my faaaavorite movies of all time. I know every single dingle song in the original movie. “I want the world, I want the whole world! I want to lock it up all up in my pocket, it’s my bar of chocolate! Give it to me, now!” […]

This entry was posted on Friday, January 12th, 2007 at 12:44 pm and is filed under Bones & Muscles, Pain. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Penny pinching is no longer just a memory of the ’30s and the Great Depression. When gasoline and milk flirt with $3/gallon, Elsie the cow is going to be a billionaire but not able to afford to drive around in her Rolls Royce. She’s going to have to walk to moooooove along. Medical co-payments are […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 9th, 2006 at 12:33 pm and is filed under Bones & Muscles, Pain, Neurologic. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.