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Archive for March, 2008
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Saturday Links: Medicine Edition
And the answer to yesterday’s Lung Fact No. 1: Your right lung is bigger than your left one in order to make room for your heart. I had no idea, did you? Now for the links. FDA Wants More Info on Long-Acting Beta Agonists You may remember the FDA’s been conducting a sort-of risk-benefit analysis [...] -
5 Lung Facts You Might Not Know
1. Your left lung is smaller than your right one. Can you guess why? ETA this answer: While your heart sits more or less in the center of your chest cavity, the larger part bulges out to the left, leaving less space for that lung. 2. The word *lung* probably comes from *lunge,* the Old [...] -
Stuffed Animals, Dust Mites, and the Process
I know I need to start washing DS’s stuffed animals, especially the ones he sleeps with. I searched your site for “stuffed animals” to see if you had already done up a post about how to do this, but I didn’t find it. Is there a link you’d recommend, or could I persuade you to [...] -
The Steroid Question
Now that I’ve written yet another disclaimer so you never, ever mistake my words for a doctor’s, nurse’s, or therapist’s, I’m finally tackling asthma treatment. This post will remain a static page you can access through the tab above. Let’s talk steroids. But first, let’s talk preventative medicine. Persistent asthma–that’s any case of asthma that [...] -
Translating Into Southern, or How to Use this Blog
During college, the toughest professor in the English Department would take a particularly thorny passage of say, Paradise Lost, and ask one of us to translate it into southern for the class. Often this was a terrifying request because he’d usually pick the most tangled passages to unwind, and by translating into “southern” he meant [...] -
Saturday/Sunday Links
This Year’s Flu Season the Worst in Several Years Are you wondering why? This Telegraph article explains and also outlines other major winter illnesses circulating right now. Weirdly, the girls seemed to contract every virus out there last year while they’ve barely been sick during this severe-for-almost-every-one-else-winter. Kids really do keep you guessing all the [...]
