Smoke makes most of us want to gag. Thank God people can’t smoke in airplanes anymore. In the pre-historic era, there were smoking and nonsmoking sections in planes. Gee, in a closed cabin without an effective air filtering system! Obviously, it didn’t work. I loved once sitting in nonsmoking row 23 with the folks in [...]
My life is so not glamorous. Because I have such a small practice (circa 2006), I usually can’t afford to have outside help. But now we’re hiring a nurse practitioner, and we’ve been hauling things all over, hammering away, dusting behind corners that haven’t seen light since 1904, yadda yadda yadda.
Things could be [...]
Whooping in my day was as normal as apple pie. I’m not saying it was right or wrong. It just was. As adults, we still take whoopings– from life.
“You’re now responsible for seven extras duties on top of what you already have– without a bonus or pay increase. Mazel tov!”
“Your HVAC works as [...]
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Choke? I used to choke in golf– 100% of the time. When I competed, when I tried out for the high school golf team, when I had an amazing score going into the 18th hole.
“Wow, I’m doing great! I might break par.”
Flash forward: sand trap, water hazard, out of bounds, lightning strike.
What happens [...]
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Pea and The Princess is one thing, but a pea in the lung is more than bizarre. Watch about the man in Cape Cod who had a pea plant found inside his lung. | NDM-1 gene is making E. Coli resistant to some antibiotics, like some staph. This could be bad news. | [...]
“Scab” is such an interesting word. I remember the culture shock in third grade when we moved from the Big Apple to Nowhereland, Ohio– and the shock was more for them than us. They looked and talked to us like we were Martians. (”We come in peace, but if you aren’t peaceful, I’m going [...]
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Mountain biking is exhilarating, moving, and fun. I am also the world’s slowest mountain biker. Lance Armstrong should present me an award for this. While I believe in pushing myself physically, I have my limitations. I don’t like looking like road-kill on the side of a bike path.
We’d never been to Lake Tahoe [...]
Pulmonary hypertension is when the blood pressure in the lungs is high. Pulmonary hypertension makes oxygen exchange difficult. Pulmonary hypertension from sleep apnea
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Tuberculosis, TB, might become active two to five percent of people who “catch” TB. MDR-TB is of concern because it is a more deadly form of tuberculosis.
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“Don’t hold your breath,” is something I hear a lot. Maybe people will do what’s right and forget any politics involved? Don’t hold your breath.
Maybe the Olympics in Beijing will reduce human right violations in China? Don’t hold your breath…. or maybe you should, with all the pollution there!
For those with asthma, irritants [...]
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Nicole Kidman is amazing in The Hours, the role that earned her an Academy Award. From the haunting music of Philip Glass to the fake nose on Kidman, Hours provides a powerful look into the day of a life. I find it ironic that in the movie Meryl Streep (the best actress ever–in [...]
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Dark Side of the Moon is my favorite album– though I hate saying something is my “favorite” because I have 1,000 favorites of everything. (I’m so open-minded!) I was discouraged from listening to rock-n-roll music growing up, so I didn’t hear of Pink Floyd until I was a freshman at Denison University.
Someone in physics class [...]
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My life is so not glamorous. Because I have such a small practice, I usually can’t afford to have outside help. But now we’re hiring a nurse practitioner, and we’ve been hauling things all over, hammering away, dusting behind corners that haven’t seen light since 1904, yadda yadda yadda.
Things could be worse– like [...]
“Okay, name this tune in four notes: “Da Da Daaaaaaaaaa-DUH!” (I need to ask my editor to work on making The Hook like one of those Hallmark cards that plays music when you open it.) A book of trivia in our waiting room has a ton of great info on the 1960s TV comedy [...]
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I have never seen the opera La Boheme, but I hear the diva dies of tuberculosis. Does Mimi sing her final aria with coughing between high C’s: “La, la… cough, cough, laaaaaa-phlegm, laaaaaa, hack”?
I don’t think Puccini would have written his opera that way. It would sound more like the Guys & Dolls song “Adelaide’s [...]
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Grandma Walton said something like, “If God intended people to smoke, He would have put chimney tops on our heads.”
I don’t remember much about The Waltons, but I do remember that phrase, because smoking is one of the worst things you can do to yourself. What about other people? Second-hand smoke is still being [...]
