Gawd! It hurts!!! ...when you really try your hardest and put forth all the effort that you are capable of... and you do it from your heart with a strong faith...and truly put your soul into making something happen and then... you are told that you haven't done anything...
:-/
owwiiee...
(it hurts really baaaaad.........!)
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Monday, December 03, 2007
The Desi Cubicle
Decorating the workspace so you don't miss the taste of home...
Once your co-workers start smelling of curry too, no one will know who had the BO ;-)
Once your co-workers start smelling of curry too, no one will know who had the BO ;-)
A Quarter of My Life...
Almost didn't make it to this day had they not figured out how to get that darn umbilical cord from around my neck, came out blue, was pampered by everyone on Nani's side being the first grandchild, Scottie, the family dog was one at the time-he got jealous cause i stole the attention he used to get, so he'd take my toys and put them under the bed right in the middle, where i couldn't get them, later he'd really rip my h.w., but he was protective of me as well and wouldn't let a mosquito come hurt me as I lay asleep, after a while of bouncing around juhu, manish nagar, lokhandwala, in bombay, it's off to doha I went experiencing sand pails and rakes on the beaches of Doha, my first experience with pralines n' cream at the company party, learning how to climb pipes which were huge mountains that I had to climb to get away from monsters in my make-believe play, coming back to bombay, i remember climbing this fence in a lokhandwala building with my mum as a shortcut to get to kindergarten class, i remember that one day i forgot to wear underwear and we had to turn back and i got late, i remember the yellow trumpet i brought in for show and tell, the dolls my macis brought for me from working as flight attendants and traveling the world, sonu, moni, bablu (he was a boy i think), apparently my family was convinced that i'd be a doctor when i started doing eye surgeries on the dolls, when one of my favorite dolls broke, i'd take parts of other dolls that i didn't like so much to perfect the one i did like, morbid huh? i remember thh long 10.5 hour sleeper cart escapade train rides to surat, sleeping on mummy's purse for a pillow, holding my brown teddy tightly against my chest, the drums that were tied with ropes around my chest to be used as a flotation device during my swimming classes, getting malaria every month, running away from flying cockroaches, watching people brush their teeth in their balconies from my 1st floor terrace, watching their spit fall down and remembering how disgusting it was, dodging pigeons on my bicycle with lifted training wheels, trying to get the one pigeon out that got stuck in the terrace door in mumma's room, watching my friend's mom make twirling spiral chakli's with the pasting machine, mimicking mum by trying to take her lipstick and putting it on with my mouth open the way she does, chocolate eclair ... more to come...
a lot more that i want to write to preserve memories of my life... but i'm too sad to do anything right now...
A Quarter of a Century Old...
From toilets that you can sit on, to dolls that can make sounds and dance, to my first talking teacher computer, to touch-tone phones, to cd players, powerwheels, hair mascara, stick-on bras, pop rocks, bookmobiles, coronary bypass, carphones, escalators, singing candles, bell-bottom pants, automatic can-openers, dos computer, dna fingerprinting, windows, email, laptops, cell phones, yahoo, napster, google, ebay, amazon, PCR, voicemail, fiber optics, ATMs, air bags, nanotechnology, hybrid cars, wifi, commercial gps, to my new digital camera! :-)
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
WHO IS JACK SCHITT
For some time many of us have wondered just who is Jack Schitt?
We find ourselves at a loss when someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt!' Well, thanks to my genealogy efforts, you can now respond in an intellectual way.
Jack Schitt is the only son of Awe Schitt. Awe Schitt, the
fertilizer magnate, married O. Schitt, the owner of Needeep N.
Schitt, Inc. They had one son, Jack.
In turn, Jack Schitt married Noe Schitt. The deeply religious couple
produced six children: Holie Schitt, Giva Schitt, Fulla Schitt, Bull
Schitt, and the twins Deep Schitt and Dip Schitt.
Against her parents' objections, Deep Schitt married Dumb Schitt, a
high school dropout. After being married 15 years, Jack and Noe Schitt divorced. Noe Schitt later married Ted Sherlock, and because her kids were living with them, she wanted to keep her previous name. S he was then known as Noe Schitt Sherlock.
Meanwhile, Dip Schitt married Loda Schitt, and they produced a son
with a rather nervous disposition named Chicken Schitt. Two of the
other six children, Fulla Schitt and Giva Schitt, were inseparable
throughout childhood and subsequently married the Happens brothers in a dual ceremony. The wedding announcement in the newspaper announced the Schitt-Happens nuptials. The Schitt-Happens children were Dawg, Byrd, and Horse.
Bull Schitt, the prodigal son, left home to tour the world. He recently returned from Italy with his new Italian bride, Pisa Schitt.
Now when someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt,' you can correct them.
Sincerely,
Crock O. Schitt
We find ourselves at a loss when someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt!' Well, thanks to my genealogy efforts, you can now respond in an intellectual way.
Jack Schitt is the only son of Awe Schitt. Awe Schitt, the
fertilizer magnate, married O. Schitt, the owner of Needeep N.
Schitt, Inc. They had one son, Jack.
In turn, Jack Schitt married Noe Schitt. The deeply religious couple
produced six children: Holie Schitt, Giva Schitt, Fulla Schitt, Bull
Schitt, and the twins Deep Schitt and Dip Schitt.
Against her parents' objections, Deep Schitt married Dumb Schitt, a
high school dropout. After being married 15 years, Jack and Noe Schitt divorced. Noe Schitt later married Ted Sherlock, and because her kids were living with them, she wanted to keep her previous name. S he was then known as Noe Schitt Sherlock.
Meanwhile, Dip Schitt married Loda Schitt, and they produced a son
with a rather nervous disposition named Chicken Schitt. Two of the
other six children, Fulla Schitt and Giva Schitt, were inseparable
throughout childhood and subsequently married the Happens brothers in a dual ceremony. The wedding announcement in the newspaper announced the Schitt-Happens nuptials. The Schitt-Happens children were Dawg, Byrd, and Horse.
Bull Schitt, the prodigal son, left home to tour the world. He recently returned from Italy with his new Italian bride, Pisa Schitt.
Now when someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt,' you can correct them.
Sincerely,
Crock O. Schitt
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Brainsuckers
Thursday, Nov. 08, 2007
When the Patient Is a Googler
By Scott Haig
We had never met, but as we talked on the phone I knew she was Googling me. The way she drew out her conjunctions, just a little, that was the tip off — stalling for time as new pages loaded. It was barely audible, but the soft click-click of the keyboard in the background confirmed it. Oh, well, it's the information age. Normally, she'd have to go through my staff first, but I gave her an appointment.
Susan was well spoken and in good shape, an attractive woman in her mid-40s. She had brought her three-year-old to my office, but was ignoring the little monster as he ripped up magazines, threw fish crackers and Cheerios, and stomped them into my rug. I tried to ignore him too, which was hard as he dribbled chocolate milk from his sippy cup all over my upholstered chairs. Eventually his screeching made conversation impossible.
"This is not an acceptable form of behavior, not acceptable at all," was Susan's excruciatingly well-enunciated and perfunctory response to Junior's screaming. The toddler's defiant delight signaled that he understood just enough to ignore her back. Meanwhile, Mom launched into me with a barrage of excruciatingly well-informed questions. I soon felt like throwing Cheerios at her too.
Susan had chosen me because she had researched my education, read a paper I had written, determined my university affiliation and knew where I lived. It was a little too much — as if she knew how stinky and snorey I was last Sunday morning. Yes, she was simply researching important aspects of her own health care. Yes, who your surgeon is certainly affects what your surgeon does. But I was unnerved by how she brandished her information, too personal and just too rude on our first meeting.
Every doctor knows patients like this. They're called "brainsuckers." By the time they come in, they've visited many other docs already — somehow unable to stick with any of them. They have many complaints, which rarely translate to hard findings on any objective tests. They talk a lot. I often wonder, while waiting for them to pause, if there are patients like this in poor, war-torn countries where the need for doctors is more dire.
Susan got me thinking about patients. Nurses are my favorites — they know our language and they're used to putting their trust in doctors. And they laugh at my jokes. But engineers, as a class, are possibly the best patients. They're logical and they're accustomed to the concept of consultation — they're interested in how the doctor thinks about their problem. They know how to use experts. If your orthopedist thinks about arthritis, for instance, in terms of friction between roughened joint surfaces, you should try to think about it, generally, in the same way. There is little use coming to him or her for help if you insist your arthritis is due to an imbalance between yin and yang, an interruption of some imaginary force field or a dietary deficiency of molybdenum. There's so much information (as well as misinformation) in medicine — and, yes, a lot of it can be Googled — that one major responsibility of an expert is to know what to ignore.
Susan had neither the trust of a nurse nor the teachability of an engineer. She would ignore no theory of any culture or any quack, regarding her very common brand of knee pain. On and on she went as I retreated further within. I marveled, sitting there silenced by her diatribe. Hers was such a fully orbed and vigorous self-concern that it possessed virtue in its own right. Her complete and utter selfishness was nearly a thing of beauty.
When to punt is not a topic taught in medical school. There is but one observation that I can offer: Patients like Susan, as self-absorbed as they are, know it immediately. They can tell when you're about to punt.
I knew full well what was wrong with this woman, and I could treat her, probably as well as anyone. But treating her condition, which was chronic patellofemoral pain, would test the mettle of patient and surgeon. What we have doesn't work very well nor very quickly. The swelling takes months to go down, the muscles take even longer to strengthen. Good patients often complain, "It was better before we started," in desperation or anger, before they see improvement. But with plenty of therapy, braces, exercises and one or two operations, this knee does improve. It's often tough going, though, and patients have to stick with you. I like to be straight — "It gets worse before it gets better" is what I tell them. Susan's style, her history and, somehow, most telling, the way she treated her son said she was not going to make it through this. Not with me, anyway.
A seasoned doc gets good at sizing up what kind of patient he's got and how to adjust his communicative style accordingly. Some patients are non-compliant Bozos who won't read anything longer than a headline. They don't want to know what's wrong with them, they don't know what medicines they're taking, they don't even seem to care what kind of operation you're planning to do on them. "Just get me better, doc," is all they say.
At the other end of our spectrum are patients like Susan: They're often suspicious and distrustful, their pressured sentences burst with misused, mispronounced words and half-baked ideas. Unfortunately, both types of patients get sick with roughly the same frequency.
I knew Susan was a Googler — queen, perhaps, of all Googlers. But I couldn't dance with this one. I couldn't even get a word in edgewise. So, I cut her off. I punted. I told her there was nothing I could do differently than her last three orthopedists, but I could refer her to another who might be able to help. A certain Dr. Brown, whom I'd known as a resident, had been particularly interested in her type of knee problem.
Disappointed and annoyed, Susan stopped for a beat.
"You mean Larry Brown on Central Avenue?"
"Uh, yes —" I started.
"I have an appointment with him on Friday. And, Dr. Haig?" she said, pulling Junior by the arm out my office door, "Watch out on your drive home tonight. There was an accident near your exit."
Dr. Scott Haig is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has a private practice in the New York City area.
When the Patient Is a Googler
By Scott Haig
We had never met, but as we talked on the phone I knew she was Googling me. The way she drew out her conjunctions, just a little, that was the tip off — stalling for time as new pages loaded. It was barely audible, but the soft click-click of the keyboard in the background confirmed it. Oh, well, it's the information age. Normally, she'd have to go through my staff first, but I gave her an appointment.
Susan was well spoken and in good shape, an attractive woman in her mid-40s. She had brought her three-year-old to my office, but was ignoring the little monster as he ripped up magazines, threw fish crackers and Cheerios, and stomped them into my rug. I tried to ignore him too, which was hard as he dribbled chocolate milk from his sippy cup all over my upholstered chairs. Eventually his screeching made conversation impossible.
"This is not an acceptable form of behavior, not acceptable at all," was Susan's excruciatingly well-enunciated and perfunctory response to Junior's screaming. The toddler's defiant delight signaled that he understood just enough to ignore her back. Meanwhile, Mom launched into me with a barrage of excruciatingly well-informed questions. I soon felt like throwing Cheerios at her too.
Susan had chosen me because she had researched my education, read a paper I had written, determined my university affiliation and knew where I lived. It was a little too much — as if she knew how stinky and snorey I was last Sunday morning. Yes, she was simply researching important aspects of her own health care. Yes, who your surgeon is certainly affects what your surgeon does. But I was unnerved by how she brandished her information, too personal and just too rude on our first meeting.
Every doctor knows patients like this. They're called "brainsuckers." By the time they come in, they've visited many other docs already — somehow unable to stick with any of them. They have many complaints, which rarely translate to hard findings on any objective tests. They talk a lot. I often wonder, while waiting for them to pause, if there are patients like this in poor, war-torn countries where the need for doctors is more dire.
Susan got me thinking about patients. Nurses are my favorites — they know our language and they're used to putting their trust in doctors. And they laugh at my jokes. But engineers, as a class, are possibly the best patients. They're logical and they're accustomed to the concept of consultation — they're interested in how the doctor thinks about their problem. They know how to use experts. If your orthopedist thinks about arthritis, for instance, in terms of friction between roughened joint surfaces, you should try to think about it, generally, in the same way. There is little use coming to him or her for help if you insist your arthritis is due to an imbalance between yin and yang, an interruption of some imaginary force field or a dietary deficiency of molybdenum. There's so much information (as well as misinformation) in medicine — and, yes, a lot of it can be Googled — that one major responsibility of an expert is to know what to ignore.
Susan had neither the trust of a nurse nor the teachability of an engineer. She would ignore no theory of any culture or any quack, regarding her very common brand of knee pain. On and on she went as I retreated further within. I marveled, sitting there silenced by her diatribe. Hers was such a fully orbed and vigorous self-concern that it possessed virtue in its own right. Her complete and utter selfishness was nearly a thing of beauty.
When to punt is not a topic taught in medical school. There is but one observation that I can offer: Patients like Susan, as self-absorbed as they are, know it immediately. They can tell when you're about to punt.
I knew full well what was wrong with this woman, and I could treat her, probably as well as anyone. But treating her condition, which was chronic patellofemoral pain, would test the mettle of patient and surgeon. What we have doesn't work very well nor very quickly. The swelling takes months to go down, the muscles take even longer to strengthen. Good patients often complain, "It was better before we started," in desperation or anger, before they see improvement. But with plenty of therapy, braces, exercises and one or two operations, this knee does improve. It's often tough going, though, and patients have to stick with you. I like to be straight — "It gets worse before it gets better" is what I tell them. Susan's style, her history and, somehow, most telling, the way she treated her son said she was not going to make it through this. Not with me, anyway.
A seasoned doc gets good at sizing up what kind of patient he's got and how to adjust his communicative style accordingly. Some patients are non-compliant Bozos who won't read anything longer than a headline. They don't want to know what's wrong with them, they don't know what medicines they're taking, they don't even seem to care what kind of operation you're planning to do on them. "Just get me better, doc," is all they say.
At the other end of our spectrum are patients like Susan: They're often suspicious and distrustful, their pressured sentences burst with misused, mispronounced words and half-baked ideas. Unfortunately, both types of patients get sick with roughly the same frequency.
I knew Susan was a Googler — queen, perhaps, of all Googlers. But I couldn't dance with this one. I couldn't even get a word in edgewise. So, I cut her off. I punted. I told her there was nothing I could do differently than her last three orthopedists, but I could refer her to another who might be able to help. A certain Dr. Brown, whom I'd known as a resident, had been particularly interested in her type of knee problem.
Disappointed and annoyed, Susan stopped for a beat.
"You mean Larry Brown on Central Avenue?"
"Uh, yes —" I started.
"I have an appointment with him on Friday. And, Dr. Haig?" she said, pulling Junior by the arm out my office door, "Watch out on your drive home tonight. There was an accident near your exit."
Dr. Scott Haig is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has a private practice in the New York City area.
Monday, November 19, 2007
My Night in Atlantic City...
Away from the lights and commotion, I walked alone on the boardwalk on this cold November night, my mind raced parallel to every roar of the ocean's wave. As they got bigger coming towards me, blurring the delicate reflection of the moon, I noticed that with every break of the wave in the midnight sky I found myself getting more and more
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
Mexican boy allegedly abused by teacher could return to U.S. - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/11/teacher.student.search.ap/index.html
Although laws for refugees to seek salvation have been in existence for a while, when cases like this get sensationalized by the media, it is just going to lead to BICE getting inundated with people claiming that they were victims of sexual abuse in order to stay in the country. Which Mexican Women hasn't had her bootie grabbed by her stickler employer who overworks her for a measly $4 bucks an hour and she can't do anything because she has three hungry mouths to feed at home...
sigh... once again we are restrained in the ugly whorl of life that is created by our own society to instill good and demolish bad in order to better ourselves but we just end up making things more difficult... The more we do, the more we complicate our system... For the people who want to live more primitively and just want to fish, hunt, make love and sleep by a fire... the Clipperton Island looks quite enticing!
heheheheeee... What a great place for a birthday party? ;-)
Although laws for refugees to seek salvation have been in existence for a while, when cases like this get sensationalized by the media, it is just going to lead to BICE getting inundated with people claiming that they were victims of sexual abuse in order to stay in the country. Which Mexican Women hasn't had her bootie grabbed by her stickler employer who overworks her for a measly $4 bucks an hour and she can't do anything because she has three hungry mouths to feed at home...
sigh... once again we are restrained in the ugly whorl of life that is created by our own society to instill good and demolish bad in order to better ourselves but we just end up making things more difficult... The more we do, the more we complicate our system... For the people who want to live more primitively and just want to fish, hunt, make love and sleep by a fire... the Clipperton Island looks quite enticing!
heheheheeee... What a great place for a birthday party? ;-)
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Happy Dhanteras Birthday To Me...!
I was born on Dhanteras about a quarter of a century ago (sounds so young, doesn't it?) ;-) It was the happiest day of my mum's life apparently! It was a very auspicious day; not just because of my birth! ;-) Of course my mum's side of the family was overjoyed with the news of the first-born grandchild but it was also an auspicious day for many more! The Hindu mythological stories fascinate me so I thought I'd share them here...
"Dhanteras, sometimes called as Dhantrayodashi falls on the thirteenth day of the month of Ashwin. 'Dhan' in Hindi means wealth. This day is specially devoted to worship Goddess Lakshmi. While the preparations for Diwali celebrations are on their full swing, Dhanteras appends a new dimension to it. This year, Dhanteras will be observed on 7th November.There is a very interesting story that backs this Hindu festival. The son of King Hema was doomed to die as soon as he completes his sixteenth year. The king and queen wanted their son to enjoy all goodness of life and therefor he got him married. The fourth day of his marriage was that dreadful day.
His wife didn't let him sleep and placed around him lots of gold & silver coins. The entry gate was also jammed with the same. Moreover big lamps were lightened all around the palace. She kept telling her husband various stories and sung songs so as to keep him awakened. As Yama, the God of death came, in the guise of a serpent, he couldn't enter the room of the Prince as his eyes were bedazzled by the flash of gold and silver. Yama had to turn back to his world. This way the girl saved her husband's life.
Because of the above told story, the day is also called 'Yamadeepdaan'. Lamps are kept burning throughout the night in the honor of Yama. Another amazing legendary story associated with Dhanteras is that of 'Samudra Manthan'. When Lord Indra along with a team of demons churned the sea to nullify the curse of Sage Durvasa, Goddess Lakshmi emerged from the sea.
The rituals of Dhanteras incorporates elements of both the stories. On the one hand, people invite Goddess of Wealth, Lakshmi to their houses (symbolically) with different kinds of rituals. All the houses are beautified with lights and colors. Specially the entrance is decorated with torans on the doors and Rangoli on the floor. Dhanteras is also considered a very auspicious day to buy gold, silver and household items, especially, utensils. The natives of Maharashtra follow a very unique custom. They mix dry coriander leaves with jaggery and offer it as Naivedya. With the kind of fervor Hindus show for Dhanteras, it certainly sets a mood for the celebrations of the festival of Diwali."
http://www.diwaliutsav.com/dhanteras.html
"Dhanteras, sometimes called as Dhantrayodashi falls on the thirteenth day of the month of Ashwin. 'Dhan' in Hindi means wealth. This day is specially devoted to worship Goddess Lakshmi. While the preparations for Diwali celebrations are on their full swing, Dhanteras appends a new dimension to it. This year, Dhanteras will be observed on 7th November.There is a very interesting story that backs this Hindu festival. The son of King Hema was doomed to die as soon as he completes his sixteenth year. The king and queen wanted their son to enjoy all goodness of life and therefor he got him married. The fourth day of his marriage was that dreadful day.
His wife didn't let him sleep and placed around him lots of gold & silver coins. The entry gate was also jammed with the same. Moreover big lamps were lightened all around the palace. She kept telling her husband various stories and sung songs so as to keep him awakened. As Yama, the God of death came, in the guise of a serpent, he couldn't enter the room of the Prince as his eyes were bedazzled by the flash of gold and silver. Yama had to turn back to his world. This way the girl saved her husband's life.
Because of the above told story, the day is also called 'Yamadeepdaan'. Lamps are kept burning throughout the night in the honor of Yama. Another amazing legendary story associated with Dhanteras is that of 'Samudra Manthan'. When Lord Indra along with a team of demons churned the sea to nullify the curse of Sage Durvasa, Goddess Lakshmi emerged from the sea.
The rituals of Dhanteras incorporates elements of both the stories. On the one hand, people invite Goddess of Wealth, Lakshmi to their houses (symbolically) with different kinds of rituals. All the houses are beautified with lights and colors. Specially the entrance is decorated with torans on the doors and Rangoli on the floor. Dhanteras is also considered a very auspicious day to buy gold, silver and household items, especially, utensils. The natives of Maharashtra follow a very unique custom. They mix dry coriander leaves with jaggery and offer it as Naivedya. With the kind of fervor Hindus show for Dhanteras, it certainly sets a mood for the celebrations of the festival of Diwali."
http://www.diwaliutsav.com/dhanteras.html
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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Today--I am 24 years and 11 months old!
One Month for the BIG 25; I have exactly one more month to live in what people call the better half of the 20s, as it is the most impactful period of your life! It's when most pick their career, their life-partner, where they want to settle, they start to take care of their parent's health and watch their own,and where they learn some of the toughest lessons about life! So before I get "OLD", I would like to ponder on what I have accomplished thus far in the first quarter of my life... Hmmm.. this is a tough one... I need some brain food... I have a big craving for Toblerone's individually wrapped assorted goodies!
MMMMMMM.... YUMMY!
Since I haven't celebrated my past few birthdays and was all alone, I need to make sure I celebrate my 25th Birthday BIG this year! It's one of those things everyone always talks about on your 50th! ;-) COME HELP ME MAKE IT A SPECIAL ONE!
MMMMMMM.... YUMMY!
Since I haven't celebrated my past few birthdays and was all alone, I need to make sure I celebrate my 25th Birthday BIG this year! It's one of those things everyone always talks about on your 50th! ;-) COME HELP ME MAKE IT A SPECIAL ONE!
2/3 a Pediatrician
Post-call after a 30 hour shift... and I decide to come online... go figure... It was my last day on the Pediatric Floor; it was good but I'm glad I'm done with that! It's the parents that get to you more than anything else, especially when their kid is an asthmatic and when the floor is busy. So here I am 2/3 through, trying not to become stone-hearted after a month of holding down infants to start IV and PIC lines in their tiny little body parts and having to stick them over and over again to draw blood from virtually non-existent veins! Poor little infants, can't even do anything under my elbow, but cry. I felt like a monster going home after that! For one little Bangladeshi baby, we ended up going in on a vein in the forehead and tried to protect it by taping it down with the plastic covering of the gauze pads! It was sad seeing the kids with ALL, AML, and Rhabdomyosarcoma who have gone through months of chemotherapy and have no veins left unstuck or hair to keep their lumpy little heads warm! Seeing them, I felt lucky to have gone through a semi-normal childhood- healthy! These poor kids had barely stepped into the world before they had to fight for their life. We won't even allow them into the play room for fear of pathogenic organisms that live on our unwashed hands could ultimately take their life. One little boy who had surgery yesterday got a colostomy because his rectum had formed a fistula with the neo-bladder that was made from his small bowel after we saw stool coming out of the ileal conduit's urine bag that was placed on the side of his abdomen! What amused me most was the 8 year old who swallowed a AA Maxwell battery while playing with the remote control! I couldn't resist this one and had to put her X-ray on my blog! What an adventure trying to get it--ask me about it and I'll tell you! :-) Wonder what made her do that. She didn't even see the episode of Law and Order where the little boy tried to put a battery in his dead big brother's mouth hoping it would energize him back to life! Sad, yes I know!
You know what else was sad--The scenes from the movie, The Kingdom, where young boys in Saudi Arabia were being told that Americans are the enemy and they were being taught how to fire missiles and attach bombs to their pre-pubescent bellies! The movie itself had amazing cinematography; the direction and camera editing was fantastic! I loved the ending; though tragic, the way they paralleled the two worlds and showed reasons for animosity on both sides was excellent! My heart stopped when the little girl opened her hand at the end after taking the lollipop! A lot of smart people out there who know what sells and makes money but sometimes they do it because they know Hollywood is the best way to get a message out to the public! Hopefully, the goons in the White House will soon stop flying troops, who should be studying in college, out East hallucinating that they're showering confetti over the desert! Anyway, so much I want to say about this movie, but have to get back to la medicina--- sigh... swallow bombs or batteries, same difference, nah? Got the little girl's X-ray down below for a quick chuckle! What they watch on TV! She's 8! Anyway, next week I'm in the nursery and will be back in the ER--should be invigorating!
You know what else was sad--The scenes from the movie, The Kingdom, where young boys in Saudi Arabia were being told that Americans are the enemy and they were being taught how to fire missiles and attach bombs to their pre-pubescent bellies! The movie itself had amazing cinematography; the direction and camera editing was fantastic! I loved the ending; though tragic, the way they paralleled the two worlds and showed reasons for animosity on both sides was excellent! My heart stopped when the little girl opened her hand at the end after taking the lollipop! A lot of smart people out there who know what sells and makes money but sometimes they do it because they know Hollywood is the best way to get a message out to the public! Hopefully, the goons in the White House will soon stop flying troops, who should be studying in college, out East hallucinating that they're showering confetti over the desert! Anyway, so much I want to say about this movie, but have to get back to la medicina--- sigh... swallow bombs or batteries, same difference, nah? Got the little girl's X-ray down below for a quick chuckle! What they watch on TV! She's 8! Anyway, next week I'm in the nursery and will be back in the ER--should be invigorating!
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
The Folding Bicycle!
Fold it and carry it in your Bag Wherever you want!
Great for zipping thru NYC traffic! ;-)
www.downtube.com
Great for zipping thru NYC traffic! ;-)
www.downtube.com
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