“It’s..be..ginning to look a lot like Christmas.” I’m a little weird about holiday songs. I don’t like to hear them every November and December, but I sing them January through October. When fireworks are going off on The Fourth of July, I’ll hum John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” with interludes [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, December 11th, 2011 at 5:40 pm and is filed under ENT, Infections. 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.

Adele is British? She doesn’t sing with an English accent. She sounds like she’s from Louisiana with a mint julep in one hand and a burning cigarette in the other. When I first heard about Adele from a rather hip friend, I ignored her, thinking Adele would fade away quickly like other “hot” from a [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 27th, 2011 at 12:27 pm and is filed under ENT. 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.

Ricky Gervais at the 2011 Golden Globe Awards was anything but dry– well, except for a few dry martinis, I’m sure.
Wow, now I like humor, but I thought at times he went a liiiiitle too far to insult his guests. To paraphrase Kathy Griffin, it’s more polite to make fun of celebrities behind their backs. [...]

This entry was posted on Saturday, February 26th, 2011 at 8:49 am and is filed under ENT, Eyes, Rheumatology. 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.

Charlie Brown’s schoolteacher talked like this, “Wah waah wah waah.” Maybe I have a hearing problem, but I don’t think The Peanuts adults articulate well. Snoopy talks better than they do.
If you talk to someone who can’t hear well, they will often blame you. One hard-of-hearing person used to say to us, “You [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 23rd, 2011 at 11:58 am and is filed under ENT, Senior Citizens. 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.

Ears burning? Maybe someone is talking about you! It’s like that Bonnie Raitt song, “Something to Talk About.” Or– could it be that you’re paranoid or super egocentric?
Really, in the end, it doesn’t matter what people think about you– but then again, as I’ve learned on Wisteria Lane (i.e. Desperate Housewives), it does [...]

This entry was posted on Friday, April 16th, 2010 at 7:54 am and is filed under Allergies, ENT, Video. 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.

Maggie Moo, our beloved hound, sniffs everything. Her nose is like a bank of knowledge. We can drive somewhere, and without even looking out the window, she can smell where she is. If we drive to the vet, her nose tips her off, and she starts to shake with dread. When we drive to the [...]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 at 2:45 pm and is filed under Allergies, ENT. 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.

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 20th, 2009 at 12:07 pm and is filed under ENT, Infections, Video. 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.

Ears burning? Maybe someone is talking about you! It’s like that Bonnie Raitt song, “Something to Talk About.” Or– could it be that you’re paranoid or super egocentric?
Really, in the end, it doesn’t matter what people think about you– but then again, as I’ve learned on Wisteria Lane (i.e. Desperate Housewives), it does [...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 7th, 2009 at 9:23 am and is filed under Allergies, ENT. 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.

Strep Throat is caused by Group A Streptococcus, Strep throat causes fever. Strep throat causes swollen glands. Strep throat has swollen tonsil. Strep is contagious

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at 1:19 pm and is filed under ENT, Infections, Video. 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.

Swimmer’s Ear is otitis externa. Swimmer’s ear occurs 10% Americans. Ears burning might be otitis externa. Swimmer’s ear causes ear pain, itch, hearing loss

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at 1:13 pm and is filed under ENT, Infections, Video. 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.

Tinnitus means the perception of sound that a person hears when there is no external source for sound. Tinnitus affects 50 million Americans, 12 million really suffer from it

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at 1:02 pm and is filed under ENT, Neurologic, Video. 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.

Elton John is the Rocketman. In October, I could “Feel the Love Tonight” when he sang “Your Song” at the JPJ here in Charlottesville.
But how in the world did he sing three hours nonstop without even clearing his throat? With so many rock singers destroying their voices of the years, Sir Elton has been [...]

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 31st, 2009 at 4:22 pm and is filed under ENT, Infections. 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 so glad we had this time together….” Sing it, Carol Burnett! I actually have an autographed photo of Carol. She’s funny, vibrant, talented, and very giving. At the end of the show, she would always do her trademark move: the ear tug. Wiggle wiggle wiggle… Goodnight!
But if someone has otitis externa (aka [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 20th, 2008 at 10:59 am and is filed under ENT, Infections. 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.

Garlic is food for the gods! Should I also include goddesses? (In Hollywood they no longer say actors and actresses; everyone is an actor. So to be more equal opportunity, shouldn’t I just say gods?)
Back to garlic, I love garlic– overall. I cook with it a lot! But like some women retain water during [...]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 at 6:33 pm and is filed under ENT, Health & Wellness. 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.

The life insurance business doesn’t make sense to me. Why would a company base earnings on the hope that none of its clients bite the dust? It’s so Russian Roulette. My college buddy works for a major insurance company, so I decided to apply for term life insurance through him. Little did I know that [...]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at 4:33 pm and is filed under ENT, Infections. 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.

Eighties music will live in my heart like a Celine Dion song. Okay, ix-nay on the eline-Cay ion-Day part. My mother sang opera before she went to medical school, and so I was raised on classical music. Rock and roll music made my mother swoon-while singing a high C-aaaaaah! So I didn’t really get [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 at 9:40 am and is filed under ENT, 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.

Vincent van Gogh is one of my favorite painters of all time. He was so ahead of his time that he didn’t know his “Starry Night” painting would look like a type of lymphoma under the microscope!
It’s so sad van Gogh didn’t make money with his paintings. In fact, rumors abound that he sold [...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 17th, 2006 at 12:43 pm and is filed under ENT, 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.