Dunno what chance this has of actually passing...
VA is contemplating a bill prohibiting discrimination due to sexual orientation and gender identity in public employment. It's a step, anyway. In theory.
You can go and enter public comments hereI commented favorably of course, but I can't honestly claim to be super optimistic about it's chances ( Read more... )

Seems that ones harvested from the San Antonio bay recently have contained noroviruses (that's the one that's known for nasty, fast moving and easily transmissible GI disturbances; Not. Fun ( Read more... )

*Everybody* in the small animal hospital is sick with this nasty, deep lung crud (duh- because they keep working, and won't go home and rest), and so the surgery residents come to oncologic path class and cough on the microscope. I had it a couple of weeks ago, but I *did* rest, so it only lasted a few days. The P-pup has been out of school since ( Read more... )

I had to be at the hospital at 6am for my biopsy this morning, so we were up at 5. They saw me pretty quick, and before long I was being wheeled off to the anaesthesia room with "yes" written in sharpie marker on my left tit. Don't want to biopsy the wrong side, I suppose. The order actually said I was to have general- I would have been fine with a ( Read more... )

Hmph. I went for my bloodwork today (the biopsy is scheduled for the 26th). So the Dr. had ordered that I have a pregnancy test ( Read more... )

So I wnet for my...not so yearly...pelvic exam last week, and the NP found a lump in my left tit, sort of back in the armpit region. About the size of a large, flattish pea. She sent me to have a mammogram (where they squah your breasts flat in both directions) and an ultrasound, yesterday. Of course no one tells me anything yesterday, I had to go ( Read more... )