my girl, skye, is in pain.  she's an athlete who has weathered much adversity to make it this far.  now she's injured.  the surgeons around here don't seem confident in their ability to take her on so they referred her to a world expert ( Read more... )

for those of you following at home, my ankle finally popped the way i was wanting/hoping it to pop.  pain is gone.  i can bear full weight on it again.  doctor, heal myself.

i know i'm not as young anymore.  i know i've ceased growing a long time ago.  i know i'm rapidly approaching the middle of my lifespan.  i know this.  but does warranty have to expire in such a swift and painful fashion ( Read more... )

I just had the roughest haircut evar.  The stylist just manhandled me, slapping me around and tugging my hair in the most hamfisted of ways.  And then she dinked into my skull with her combs and clippers.  I was most thankful that my brain was encased in bone as it would've likely had a trimming too.  I think she was sick or had allergies as she ( Read more... )

I mind my poop.  Do you mind your poop?  For some it's beneath them, but I'm not above looking at the fruits of my labor.  Being ever health minded and not to give you information of the too much type, I must keep tabs on my excreta.  It's a good thing ( Read more... )

I figured that after 25 years of schooling and a few more years in the hell they call residency training would earn me some special privileges.  I thought that  perhaps that earning a few sheets of paper and a couple of extra initials after my name would change my life significantly.  Well, it did but in the most unexpected way: I get to touch ( Read more... )

the algorhythm includes:

--being called into work unexpectedly.

--expensing the biggest most, expensive lunch you and your workmates can consume in the name of "recruiting"

--oh yeah, and ibuprofen. lots and lots of ibuprofen...

after the recent brush with death, the call gods had mercy.  i was actually able to take a nap--an increasingly rare occurrence on call and between 3am and 6am, i was able to chill a bit.  i awoke quite sore but thankful: thankful to be alive and thankful for a respite from the storm that is the er ( Read more... )

i just wiped out on my bike.

the weather was nice and superrice and i decided to take a ride into the country.  it is harder to do these days what with greedy developers casting suburban sprawl at odds with greedier resource companies planting gas wells across the landscape.  when i first moved to this area, it was nothing but cow pastures and rolling ( Read more... )

Woman arrested after allegedly tying up Valentine and drinking his blood.  The story itself caught my attention.  Then I looked at the dateline: Fort Worth.  "The man was transported to an area hospital..."  It is highly likely that he was transported to my hospital.  There are only two Level 2 trauma centers on this side of the Metroplex and we ( Read more... )