Dartos Vader said:
I'm jealous, I hear portland is awesome. Were you eating nagiri? They do have sort of a neutral taste. I think the more you get into sushi, you start to eat more rolls, and less nagiri. The rolls are pretty flavorful. Try a spicy tuna roll. YUM! Now that you have been talking about it for so long, I cant picture you being any other kind of doc than peds onc. Now that I'm not on ER any more i've lost interest in it. It was fun for a while but....
Bird****, I just went to the waxing salon, took off all my clothes and said Give me whatever burchette gets when he comes here. 3 anorexic girls and one large croatian man pulled out every hair on my body with tweezers. I won't say what the croat tried to do (mike you are one sick puppy). I'm ready for our late night OMM/snugglefest.
Ray, I am going to try to bring the boat to graduation week if you are interested in doing some fishing with me and Dmak, just like the good old days. Buy a license ahead of time for once. Make sure it is for frogs
Camp Sunshine is a really cool place. If you want to just volunteer somewhere this is a very nice camp. The volunteers are housed and fed (pretty good food...the blueberry pie was AWESOME), the children are fun to play with, and the activities are nonstop. They swim in a pool, swim in a lake, go boating, fisihing, marshmallow roasting, wall climbing, endurance course running, play kickball....and the list goes on.
Granted most of the volunteers this week are 17-18, but I think Mike would be OK with that.
I have to say that the concept I operated under about parents of childhood cancer patients was dead on. These are well informed consumers. Here's the strangest story I heard:
CAH and Neuroblastoma: By far the strangest story is this child. A
lesbian couple (Mother 1 = M1, and Mother 2 = M2) wanted a child. M1
was 40ish, and M2 was 30ish. M1 wanted to bear. After several
unsuccessful attempts at IVF with a sperm donor, M1 gave up attempts to
carry a pregnancy to term with her own eggs. M2 donated a younger egg
to the IVF. The embryo was implanted in M1. M1 carried the pregnancy
to term successfully with "some complications" but these were not
adequately described. The boy child was sick in the neonatal term and
was immediately diagnosed with CAH. A proper regimen for stabilization
was elucidated, and the child became stable. Some time later (he's 3
now), perturbations in health were noted such as anemia and abdominal
pain. The mother said that since the child was CAH, the physicians were
trying to adjust the regimen, and thinking in the focus of CAH. During
one visit the physician palpated a large liver. This led to further
investigation and diagnosis of Neuroblastoma type 4S. Several biopsies
of the bone marrow revealed it "changed" to type 4. The mother said
this was very odd, and the physicians didn't believe it. I'm not sure
what this means. In any case the sperm donor was "fired" from the
program, and the genetic testing was done on all parties. M2 was not a
carrier. The sister of M2 and that sister's husband both carried the
gene. The sperm donor carried the gene as well (obviously).
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