Well, probably they're not much more hairy than me. I'm going to be in hospital for a few days, as agreed with my dr. this morning. So I'm home blogging frantically waiting for the call...
Tired and sore. Bed for a day or two sounds inviting (until about the 3rd hour, at which point my brain remembers that I hate hospitals. Then I spend the next 3 hours trying to make them discharge me).
And now, with a late-breaking news story, here's Kermit The Frog:
"Ahem! News to hand indicates that Sock's maidenhead is no more. This means an outside possibility of puppies. So everyone cross your tails, 'kay?"
On a more serious note, I was reading an article about a drug that has been shown to help black men, exclusively.
A study found that black people taking the drug with other heart failure medicines were less likely to die than those given a placebo.
BiDil could be a step toward more personalized medicines that someday would be based on genetic profiles, doctors said. BiDil combines two generic drugs that appeared to help blacks in earlier research, although they failed to do the same for the general population. The heart failure study then was done and found a benefit for black people taking the drug. - nytimes.com
Which is very good news. But what if it were a drug developed specifically for white men suffering from heart failure? Wouldn't there be a storm-in-an-uninformed-teacup? "it's racist", "all the health funding goes to white men", "eveyone ignores the [insert minority]".
You know the sort of thing. I don't think we can help that reaction, necessarily - it's a bit like that arthritis treatment that Pharmac won't fund for anyone over 18. People tend to feel brassed off at any exclusions (well, when they are excluded).
What are you going to the hospital for? I would call or text and ask how you are going but my phone is completely broken!! I should follow your lead and head over to cash converters.
Posted by: giffy at June 17, 2005 01:29 PMhope you ok hun :) prob good for you to have a couple of days of rest etc. just as long as you've got plenty of things to keep you occupied so you don't get too bored. *hugs* Z
Posted by: Zephfi at June 18, 2005 11:13 AM