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Posted by Erik Rupard on April 25th, 2008
Sorry guys and gals, long day today, and I did not have much computer access, due to circumstances beyond my control. I will get a longer message out tomorrow, including, by popular demand, some interesting medical cases. Had a few this week, including another pregnancy, a patient with herpes of the eye (not a laughing matter, and not sexually transmitted—truly a sad case, but I have high hopes for the soldier), some spider bites, an ulcer, and some others.
File under “It gets hot in the desert”: 118 degrees today at 2 PM. Tomorrow is supposed to be warmer, and next week, the high 120s.
Quote Of The Day
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.
PJ O’Rourke
See you tomorrow!
April 25th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Correction to prior post comment section: When I said “Erik vehemently opposes HPV vaccine…” I meant that he opposes it for our own daughters (since it is an STD preventive) and not for the rest of society. Sloppy writing on my part.
I hope I didn’t initiate a debate. Sorry, if so.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Lorri,
I understood completely what you meant, but I don’t think it is going to far to say that most people appose hpv. Not the vaccine, but the disease! Becky told me that they are also recommending it to teenage boys , as they can get hpv of the throat from doing various and sundry nasties with girls. Sad world we live in isn’t it? She told me her employer got it for his sons. I know someone who got the vaccine and said it was very painful, and caused an irritating reaction of the skin, and to make matters worse, you need it in a series of 3. Not fun for girls who don’t need it for social reasons. Plus, it’s too new for me anyway. I like vaccines that have withstood years of clinical trials and tracked people for decades before I shoot it into their bodies. Maybe there are, but I personally haven’t seen them.
Erik, was the soldier with the smallpox reaction and consequently put on steroids the one who had the case of roid rage? Also, You seemed to imply that these feelings were there all along, but the soldier seemed to have lost the ability to “hide” these feelings with the steroids on board. Is this the case, or do the steroids stimulate some “anger receptors” in the brain, and cause the feelings of rage. I ask, because when I was on the steroids last month, I experienced something like this only on a much milder scale. I felt inexplicably angry at all my family, and people I didn’t know, like crappy drivers and dumb people in the grocery store. My hands were aching to choke the idiot drivers in old Lyme who tend to be 95 or older, and wait until you are just about to go by them on a crossroad, when they pull out, with no one behind you, causing you to stamp on your breaks and then proceed at a speedy 25 mph. Completely annoying and unnecessary bad driving. I hope I don’t have deep seated anger issues that I am effectively hiding due to social pressures. I don’t want to go Postal on anyone!
Hope all is well with you. I envy you. I have never seen a jackal in real life. I wouldn’t go to Al Asad to see it, though.
Love you, Missy
April 27th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Erik,
Let me know about the books. I have them and would like to send them, but not if you don’t want them. If you do, it would be my pleasure to send them along with your next package, which shoud go out around the 29th or 30th. love to all MKT