Oy! Please may I have a hysterectomy? My right ovary has been hurting most of the day, intermittently. Gah! Well, you evil ovary bastard! I had some blood work done today. I'm one step closer to having you under control! MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA! My chemistry tests and the complete blood count all came back lovely... nothing too weird... other than the ( Read more... )

Man. What a day. Mondays are always busy in hematology but today was nuts. We must have done 260 CBCs... that's just what the analyzer does. We have to do slides, retics, BNPs, D-Dimers, Sed Rates, etc, too. After lunch, Monica had to go with Dr. Mohan to help with a bone marrow. She asked if I wanted to go just as Gloria brought over a bunch of ( Read more... )

If had nuts, they'd be frozen off by now! Holy shit! It is so cold in here that I am going to go put on some gloves, a second pair of socks (I haven't felt my feet since I got out of bed this morning) and lie down under a blanket ( Read more... )

I nearly shit my pants laughing over this LOLcat.

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Still not well but getting better. I can now breathe through my nose again. :D

OK. More art.

Some back story here: a while back, I joined a community on Live Journal called "Gray Muzzles" which is for people over 30 who are into the furry fandom. There are, what, five or six of us, eh, Foxonian and CoonWulf? On the mentioned site, I began chatting with a guy who ( Read more... )

About the election yesterday, this has restored my faith in my country. I've heard all the comparisons of Obama to President Kennedy and the Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.,... and I can see the point (the eloquence of Obama's oratory, for example) but I need to caution you people. JFK and Dr. Rev. King were both ASSASSINATED! Please, let us not ( Read more... )

Managed to find a pair of glasses last night that I could scavenge for parts. They were my Mom's glasses... so she's still taking care of me. :) However, if I lose one of these pads, I'm screwed. Still thinking about new glasses. Thx to Foxonian for helping me pick a pair ( Read more... )

Woke up late. Was forgetting everything. Rush, rush, rush. Got to work on time, though. Had fun in hematology. We were supposed to get to see a bone marrow aspirate pulled from a patient but the family of the lady wouldn't allow it to proceed. The patient is 85 and may have a chronic form of cancer... since her last BMA was painful, the family ( Read more... )

First: I have a couple of questions for all the artists who use markers ( Read more... )

So, I was watching the new episode of "Dr. G.: Medical Examiner" last night when she began to profile her "current case": African American male, in his 60s, was said to not partake of alcohol or illicit drugs, not much in the way of medical history as he lived quite fit. However, he began drinking a lot - iced tea, water, typical non-alcoholic ( Read more... )