Traci Doland keeps me posted on her cute little guy, Broady. Like my Nathan, Broady has Scimitar Syndrome. His surgery has not been scheduled yet, but he will undergo a procedure to repair Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return by baffling to the left atrium. He will also require resection of the right lower lung because [...]
We’re in Destin, Florida, for the Mississippi Dental Association Convention. I’ll be honest–I am not a beach person. I don’t like sand. I don’t like heat. And I don’t like getting walloped by waves.
Nathan, on the other hand loves it. And I’m a sucker for Nathan, so we spent several hours yesterday in the sun [...]
I happened to be watching Oprah when this exchange between Dr. Mehmet Oz and Michael J. Fox aired. If you missed it, this is well worth your time:
Josh Brahm is the creator of “Science Matters,” a series of videos presenting arguments for using Adult Stem Cell Research and iPS technology instead of Embryonic Stem Cell [...]
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My oldest son (Nathan’s big bro’), Adam, has almost completed his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His team has completed a project that has recently been published in Biofabrication, a journal of state-of-the-art research and development. Much of what those guys do is waaay over my head, but [...]
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For the first couple of years after Katrina, I could not take a ride down Highway 90 without my eyes misting over. You don’t realize how much you love a place until it’s hopelessly gone.
The SS Hurricane Camille seems a quirky place to be sentimental over, but I can’t help it–I miss it. As a [...]
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