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Today is Dre’s 30th birthday.

The Survivor, originally uploaded by .Ariel.
It’s it crazy how fast skin can heal? Compare.

Today while I was waiting for The Beloved Scabby One to come pick me up on the way to his stitch-removal appointment, I noticed a bike messenger. I’d seen this kid once already earlier in the day and been struck by the fact that, well, he wasn’t wearing a helmet. When I saw him a [...]

As the eyewitness reports of Dre’s bike wreck start to come in, I’m going through shock all over again. People could hear the crack of his helmet on the pavement from 30 feet away. He went into convulsions before he regained consciousness. One rider thought he was dead. I’m having aftershocks of mortification and terror [...]

Who wants to take a look at how Andreas is doing? From the neck down, he’s just fine. Sore shoulders and a couple patches of road burn. Nothing serious. I took some pictures as he lay snoozing this morning at the hospital, and I just now got patient relase permission to share them with you [...]

Thank god for helmets, originally uploaded by .Ariel.

This weekend Dre was doing the annual Seattle to Portland bike classic. Just south of Seattle he hit a train track wrong and had a pretty serious head-crash. His helmet here tells the tale.
The damage? Broken nose, missing tooth, cut that went all the way through his [...]

Those of you who had been waiting with bated breath will be pleased to hear that I AM NOT BLIND! My Lasik was a raging success, and the doctor even complimented me repeatedly on my calmness and ability to stay totally deathly still as a small mechanized scalpel cut a flap in my eyeball and [...]

Have I mentioned that my LASIK surgery is tomorrow? As part of my research, I forced myself to look at pictures of the procedure. Tomorrow that will be me, Clockwork Orange-style. I will be wide awake, but heavily sedated and in that special place that I can go into during yoga, pap smears, dental work, [...]

The facts:
1. This weekend I bit a small rock and knocked out a crown, the tooth just to the right of my front teeth.
2. I’m getting a new porceline crown put in.
3. When I dismantled my grandmother’s wedding ring two years ago, there were several small diamonds left over. They are currently sitting in a [...]

Tonight I have a consultation to see if I want to do what heard someone this weekend refer to as “flap ‘n’ zap,” aka corrective laser eye surgery.
I’ve known lots of folks who’ve had lasik surgery (Vera’s description was the most detailed and helpful that I’ve seen), but I’ve never really considered it for [...]

Looks like there’s another round of chatter in the media about menstruation suppression. You can read my (somewhat old) thoughts on the subject over here.
In reading this article from CNN, the comment that caught my eye the most was this:
Girls learn early on that menstruation is a sign of fertility and femininity, making its [...]