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POPSMYJ | This gadget would be helpful for patients in my positon
Yesterday, I received another IVIG, immunoglobulin infusion, at City of Hope (COH). This has become a monthly routine that may continue indefinitely as doctors try to rebuild my immune system. Periodically (about every 90 days), I also receive infusions of the miracle drug Rituxan. Since I haven't had an infusion catheter (known as a Pic line or Hickman) for more than a year and a half now, the nurses and techs at COH must run a new line each time I have these procedures. They are really experienced and good at this, but because of my initial 16 months of chemotherapy, these veins tend to be hard to find which often requires multiple sticks. On one occasion in radiology prior to a CT scan, running a successful IV proved impossible so after six attempts, so the radiologist asked the nurse to do the procedure without the IV. Ouch! After yesterday's procedure, even though two "sticks" is tolerable, I wondered if there was a device to help make this process easier. Sure eno
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POPSActor Who Played Down Syndrome Character Slams Palin Ms. Friedman, an actor and lecturer who works in a law firm and has Down Syndrome herself, after hearing about the Palins’ reaction decided to write a letter to the New York Times. "In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes. Ouch.
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POPSTouching The Phantom Excellent article from my psych class last term. Deals with the reasons behind phantom limb sensation, whether it be an itch or pain, or whatever that amputees complain of. This is pretty new, too. Worth reading!
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POPS OUCH.... Obama's one true SOTU statement: "We face a deficit of trust." He forgot, "We also face a surplus of talk -- and of government." • Randy Barnett -- a Professor of Law at Georgetown, writing at Politico -- blistered the President's speech: "In the history of the State of the Union has any President ever called out the Supreme Court by name, and egged on the Congress to jeer a Supreme Court decision, while the Justices were seated politely before him surrounded by hundreds Congressmen? To call upon the Congress to countermand (somehow) by statute a constitutional decision, indeed a decision applying the First Amendment? ...this was a truly shocking lack of decorum and disrespect towards the Supreme Court for which an apology is in order. A new tone indeed." • Bradley Smith, a Professor of Law at Capital University, leveled withering criticism at the President's behavior: "... statement is false. The Court held that , which prohibits all .....
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POPSTerrible Balance I remember seen a lot of people in crutches on campus around the holidays. Ice can be murder!
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