Cameron is one year out (nearly) and still cancer free!   We now get to space out the MRI's to every 6 months, so now I only have to hold my breath twice a year. 

I had the fortune to be invited up to Halifax Nova Scotia to speak at a conference on transgender health and wrangled an extra day to at least tour the city. Being a closet romantic, I had hoped to find remnants of late 18th and 19th C historic Halifax: privateers, sea trade, French-British-American conflict--you know, the good stuff. Alas, while ( Read more... )

In the middle of grant-writing hell, my guys managed to give me a beautiful Mother's Day weekend (Yes, MY Mother's Day lasts all weekend long, so nyah...)

Saturday, Cam couldn't wait to give me the clay rainbow dinosaur he made: "Shh, I'll give you a hint--it's a dinosaur."
swords_and_pens made me a wonderful dinner: Scallops with beurre blanc, roasted vegetable ( Read more... )

From time to time, I actually do research--either clinical or qualitative research related to health care. One needs money to actually do the research; to buy equipment, pay personnel, run tests, etc. More importantly, one needs money to buy time away from seeing patients (or teaching) in order to conduct research. In medicine, conducting research ( Read more... )

My migraines managed to stay under control for the Haire Affaire tourney. As usual, I blew hot and cold in the fight department, but didn't do too bad, all things considered. Had two wonderfully fun sets of fights with the good Doctor, and got to be reminded that my Don-father still throws with the best of them. I am officially registered for Gulf ( Read more... )

"May you fall into the outhouse just a regiment of Ukrainians is finishing a prune stew and twelve barrels of beer."

Works well for a variety of other ethnic/other peoples and food groups, too!

From time to time, my workplace gets called to comment on issues of sexual health. A new study was published in the journal "Pediatrics" that showed that over 40% of parents in the study did not talk with the teen children about topics such as condom use or birth control before the teens had intercourse. Two radio stations wanted some commentary ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to mateobard and doctorcurly!

That is all.

IN  THE  ARC  OF  YOUR  MALLET     Don’t go anywhere without me.   Let nothing happen in the sky apart from me,   or on the ground, in this world or that world,   without my being in its happening.   Vision, see nothing I don’t see.   Language, say nothing.   The way the night knows itself with the moon,   be that ( Read more... )

This week, I met a homebrewing patient whose most recent batch is called "Transsexu-Ale ( Read more... )