I know I have expounded upon the merits of Apple Computers and my iPod, but this just keeps getting better.

I have 2 Apple Computers: a beeeeuuuutiful 20″ G5 (aka: Big Mac), and a cute and cuddly 12″ PowerBook G4 (aka: Little Mac). Okay, so not so original, but it works.

As with [...]

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I usually try to not get all personal photo happy on here (contrary to recent posts) but I just wanted to share these:

My new niece:

My Sister Sarah, Brother Ben (the proud daddy!) and Me

Sarah works in the OR as a nurse, which I think have mentioned, and I was there doing intubations the day Lily [...]

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Well, the first few days of the new job have been fairly insignificant, but have made me happy, nonetheless. It took most of an 8 hour day on Monday to get my schedule figured out and the many classes I need, scheduled. I am so excited to be back in a learning mode.

The [...]

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So, imagine my surprise when scan the latest volume of Orthopaedic Nursing and find an article titled “Pelvic Fractures.”

The relevance? I was asked to write the SAME ARTICLE by one of their editors a few months ago. I have since spent hours on a case study, research and writing with the first draft [...]

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I make a horrible patient.

Reader’s Digest Version: My talus and calcaneous are fused bilaterally causing HUGE amounts of CHRONIC pain in the vicinity of my right cuboid. After a gastrocnemius release (lengthening of the calf muscle) 18 months ago, I had high hopes the almost constant pain would be resolved. Not so [...]

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