thinky AND crafty
Tomorrow one of my Australian cousins will come to see us for a few days.
While munching our English muffins on the back porch my daughter told me about the present she is going to make for my cousin. I told her that I admired her rare capacity to think up the kind of present that would make a person happy and then manufacturing it.
“I am a thnky and crafty person” said she “and I like to see the happy faces people make when they get a present from me”.
Details with photo about the typically Wisconsinite present will follow as soon it will be confectioned. I will have to find a toilet paper roll, though, so she can get started on the crafty part.
atypical molestation
Naked mole rats are atypical moles (or rats?): they live in a eusociety like bees, feel no pain and have such a high resistance to cancer that cancer has never been observed in them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole_rat
My atypical moles were no rats but “dysplastic nevi”: benign moles that may resemble melanoma. People who have them are at increased risk of developing single or multiple melanomas, one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer: http://www.skincancer.org/dysplastic-nevi-atypical-moles.html
Fortunately, melanoma can be one of the easiest cancers to find, and one of the easiest to cure if found and removed early. (If allowed to progress to the point where it spreads to other sites, the forecast is very poor. More than 8,000 melanoma deaths now occur per year, which is five times less than the number of fatal car accidents in the US.)
My atypical moles were found, identified and excised before they could turn from benign to malign.
The cute little buggers can’t even dream of molesting my fair skin any more: their atypical mole stations have been irreversibly removed.
My Daily Birthday Cake Today
Since I started celebrating my re-birthday every day I developed a kind of private birthday party. I usually get up between 5 and 6 and get hungry around 7 in the morning while most of my family is still asleep. I get out a deep frozen blueberry bagel, thaw it and toast it. Then I put little pieces of unsalted butter on the halves and watch them melt.
Today the ritual was specially rewarding due to the sunrays falling on the butter. It looked like it was the sunrays that melted the butter.
The warmth of the bagels, its color and texture, the sight and the smell of the melting butter formed a complex sensual symphony, a hymn to the new morning.
Against Cancer Recurrence: Apple and Cherries, Green Tea and Beer
One of my Hungarian friends, a chemical engineer, sent me a lot of Hungarian links on the cancer recurrence preventive effects of apigenin. I searched some sites in English myself and it looks like I will have to eat more apples and drink more cherry juice:
http://www.healthdiscoveries.net/cancer-and-nutrition.html
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jrr/48/1/48_45/_article
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2006/0189680.html
and drink more green tea:
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/89/24/1881.full
His other recommendation, Avemar, did not convince me:
http://csn.cancer.org/node/167595
It reeks of snake oil and I will probably follow this recommendation
http://cancerfighter.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/avemar-and-cancer/
- not to ferment germs but to start drinking wheat beer:)
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