Oh, my sacro-iliac! It’s where your pelvis joins to your back-bone — pretty much where your top is hooked to your bottom. Nobody ever uses that term anymore. They call it the "S-I Joint". I think that’s because saying "sacro-iliac" conjures up images of Jimmy Durante and vaudeville. It is a pretty darn funny-sounding word. […]
Monthly Archives: November 2006
People often say that you can’t be a "little bit pregnant". Either you are or you aren’t. When we’re talking dogs and cats we’ve got a little more of a gray area, and some areas are grayer than others. First of all, they have multiple offspring, aka "litters". So, in that respect, you could be […]
If you had a cancerous lump you’d probably want to have it cut off. As long as we’re cutting it off, I suppose we might as well get it all, shouldn’t we? Makes sense to me… only… how do we know how much to cut off? Everybody has rules to live by. Some are sensible, […]
When I was a Troop Guide in Wood Badge Course C-12-04, my patrol had a number of "Eclectic Ecstatic Eagles". One of them will receive his beads tonight in Fenton, Missouri, so I’m off to see the culmination of the journey we started together. Lots of driving for a short ceremony, but you gotta do […]
There comes a time in a young veterinarian’s education when he (or she) realizes that his idea of normal conversation has become somewhat deranged. When you’re in class six days a week, from 7:30 AM until 5:30 PM, and in the library until 11:00 or so, and everybody you see is a fellow veterinary student […]