Sometimes the events of nature and man get in the way and there is a point when a man is broken, when his will to achieve his calling is destroyed.
Such was the case for my planned trip to Shenandoah NP, Matthews Arm Loop, on June 30 and July 1st, when a fire on the western segment of my planned hike dissuaded my other 2 companions from joining and the biggest storm this summer to hit the area (including DC) closed the entrance to the NP because of downed tress. Also, the temperature was going to be around 100F.
Oh well, will plan the hike for later this year....
So much for a broken man with a destroyed call!
Showing posts with label Gum Disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gum Disease. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Death by Piano
I still do not know what the cause of the underlying cause of the headache was. The MRI showed the AVM and the rest is history -some still to be written.
The probabilities of having a stroke or cerebral bleeding are reason enough to treat the AVM, specially at my (tender :-)) age. The treatment of the AVM is not painfull but it is stressfull and I have had side effects that are concerning- episodes of numbness on my left side.
And then I can be run over by a bus, or killed by a falling piano.....
Knowldege forces you to act. It also creates stress and the benefits of that knowledge are questionable. If that piano falls on my head, all was for nothing.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Gum Disease and life
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If you have ever been in a dentist office chances are high that you have seen the poster of gum disease.
Recall the bone where teeth are attached? It is porous -not solid but full of holes. No two bones are the same - each one of us (maybe with the exception of identical twins) are the same. No bone structure is better or worse, just different.
But fundamentally, at the DNA level, we are the same.
Think about you refrigerator (for the older of us) or your iPod.
Fundamentally they are the same but we have made them unique. I have my
Juanes and Vives songs, lots of the classical music I like and
photographs of Machu Picchu that give me great pleasure when my day is not going well. I would be very surprised if anybody in the world had
the same content on their iPod.
My iPod is no better or worse than anybody else's. It is just different
just like the bone in the Gum Disease poster
When the iPod came out of the box it was like our shared DNA- exactly the same.
If you have ever been in a dentist office chances are high that you have seen the poster of gum disease.
Recall the bone where teeth are attached? It is porous -not solid but full of holes. No two bones are the same - each one of us (maybe with the exception of identical twins) are the same. No bone structure is better or worse, just different.
But fundamentally, at the DNA level, we are the same.
Think about you refrigerator (for the older of us) or your iPod.
Fundamentally they are the same but we have made them unique. I have myJuanes and Vives songs, lots of the classical music I like and
photographs of Machu Picchu that give me great pleasure when my day is not going well. I would be very surprised if anybody in the world had
the same content on their iPod.
My iPod is no better or worse than anybody else's. It is just different
just like the bone in the Gum Disease poster
When the iPod came out of the box it was like our shared DNA- exactly the same.
To be continued ...
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