It's a boy!!

Well, last night, my wife and I had our 16 week ultrasound. Although I think the doctor had wanted to just do a quick listen to the heart. He had said however 4 weeks ago that we could check, so I reminded him, and he said we'd have to wait in line. Which translated into a 10 minute wait, that was nothing compared to the last 4 weeks I spent waiting to find out.

Almost right away it was obvious it was a boy, to me it didn't matter either way if we had a boy or a girl, but my wife wanted a boy, so she was really happy (as was I of course, but I'm happy already to just be having a baby).

Now we can finally start choosing a name (I refused until we knew if it was a boy or girl, I didn't see the point) and we can start looking for things to pick up, or put in the baby registries. At least I don't have school to worry about for the next few weeks, maybe we can get some of that stuff done before I start.

Anybody have any good suggestions for things to pick up?

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An Aspirin a day, keeps the Doctor________?

This used to be an easy fill-in the blank type question. But recently, the wisdom and logic behind taking an aspirin a day as a preventative measure against heart disease/attacks or strokes has been taken in to question.

It seems that the daily intake of aspirin greatly increases the risk of developing gastrointestinal bleeding, and even carries a risk of hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding in to the brain). So new guidelines are being released in order to help guide decisions on the matter. As the risk of having a cardiac event or stroke must be weighed against the internal bleeding in the intestines or brain.

The guidelines are as follows:

Men less than 45, should NOT take aspirin on a daily basis to prevent an event.
Women less than 55 are in the same boat.

Men between 45 and 79 should take a daily aspirin, if the risks of an event outweigh the other risks.

Women between 55 and 79, shouldn't take a daily aspirin to prevent a heart attack, but may take one if the likely-hood of a stroke outweighs other risks.

They said there were was no evidence either way once you've passed 80. I guess they figure you've made it this far, so you've probably earned the right to pop some pills.



The article may be found here; Aspirin Article

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Flipping the Bird

Today was my last Microbiology exam, the final, the one I've been dreading since day one. Usually, my feelings
about my tests, but with this class, my "Grade'o'meter" has been off, so I have no real clue as to how I did. All I know is I needed my best, which is what I gave, hopefully it translates in to a good grade.

For those of you expecting a bashing of my class, especially due to my title, I'm sorry up disappoint, that will have to come another day.

I get weekly allergy shots, and I was on my way, and almost there in fact, when the following happened. I had just gotten off the freeway (3 left hand turn lanes), I was in the right-most lane, preparing for a right turn I needed to make in a couple of lights. A lady in the left most lane that this would be an appropriate time to suddenly cross 3 lanes of traffic, and almost cause a collision. I was the last car she cut off, and I had to break, hard......

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