Something to look forward to...

As if random communicable diseases on a seasonal basis was not enough.

Why teenagers act crazy (from www.nytimes.com).

Nipple Michelangelo?

We talk a lot about the psychosocial aspects of rehabilitation. Making people feel real, and comfortable in their own skin after devastating accidents and diseases is one thing nurses are good at working with patients.

Another aspect of this is feeling good about your body afterwards.Vinnie Myers helps women during breast reconstruction by giving them tattoos.

It's an article you don't want to miss.

Enjoy a long weekend

No, it's not a holiday, but I decided to make it one. Visited a few friends, then the weather changed some of my plans, but here I am, relaxing and now surfing the internet for fun.

I was reading an article which discussed how if James Bond were real, he would be an alcoholic with impotence. I really enjoyed this article, because scientists had to read the Ian Fleming novels and count the quantity of alcohol that 007 drank. According to the books, he even had a DUI with injuries. (Good thing he wasn't looking for car insurance!)

So after that stunning study, there was this article about the real diseases named after literary characters. I had recognized a couple of them, so it was enlightening. I also did not know that the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation did a story in 2012 on favorite fictional nurses.

Finally, two articles stood out about characters. One interesting article was called "You are what you read." The last one is about fictional characters based on real people.

In light of the article "You are what you read", just remember there are some fictional characters you should not emulate.

That is all. TGIF and enjoy your weekend, wherever you are.

The things you learn with children

My child, Bubba, is a character. He's spent his afternoon after soccer, singing around the house: church songs, and even Adele.

He's also having a grand old time trolling the internet on the iPad we got recently. (I won it at MegaConference). When he wasn't busy playing a map game of the NCAA tournament, he was checking YouTube and looking at videos of other kids.

He also learned about genetic diseases when he happened upon a video of a kid with a rare skin disease. We looked it up and found out that is now survivable. He was most impressed that the little girl we saw doesn't live too far from RehabLand.

Now it's a golfing math game, so he wanders to and fro, but when supervised, he has fun and learns something, too.

More to come...spring break is still young.

Nuggets for April 29

Oh, the joys of homework, yet again. Soon, however, this semester will be a memory.
So what does an avalanched grad student do in her free time outside with her laptop? Surf mindlessly, of course, in glorious weather, with her favorite brew at hand. Ah...if only life could be so sweet everyday.

Here are a few places of note from my meanderings on the internet lately.

From the blogosphere...
Gotta love teachers, and I just absolutely positively appreciated this post CrankyProf put up the other day. Priceless.

I got hooked on FML because Maha's got a link to it on her blog. As a mother, I especially appreciated this recent post. Thankfully, Bubba cannot take glass to school.

Finally, I ran into this article about names of famous diseases via casesblog.

More later...back to work...