Archive for February 5th, 2008

Brachytherapy

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Would be scary and one of the most not fun things I can think of. Brachytherapy is a treatment for various kinds of cancer where a radio active item is placed inside your body near the site of cancer. Some people have to be hospitalized for this treatment and the nurse treating the patients has to take special precautions so that they limit their exposure to radiation. I don’t know about you but that would freak me out. You know, the nurse comes in in a hazmat suit to treat me. Okay, not totally like that, but scary none the less. Scary to think that you are being freely exposed to crazy levels of radiation and healthy people are taking all kinds of precautions to reduce their exposure. In fact, nurses dealing with these patients will wear a film badge that they take to the radiation department after their shift to see how much radiation they were exposed to. Kind of crazy!!

Oh yeah, did I mention I want to specialize in oncology?

There Really Can Be Too Much Of A Good Thing

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

I love my son and bless his heart, he does not want anyone to smell his poo. This is good and sometimes bad. He seems to think that if he sprays 10x the recommended amount of  poo smell hider, no one will know what he has done. Sadly, my apartment is small and the smell of the poo hider is more noxious than anything. I have yet to decide if smelling the poo would just be better than the hider? Hmm?

In this case, too much of a good thing is rather bad. Oh and he would KILL me if he knew I posted this on my site :)