I saw my internist, Dr. Al Sheehy today. I’d had the labs and all the other tests last week, and it seems that except for the white blood cell count everything is fine. He assured me that while th WBC was low it wasn’t dangerously low – would have to be about 0.5 – and … Read more
Ellen Mullin sent me this, so she gets the credit and the blame – A young kid from Oklahoma moves to California and goes to a big "everything under one roof" department store looking for a job. The manager says "Do you have any sales experience?" The kid says "Yeah, I was a salesman back … Read more
The Yanks backed into the division title last night; even though they lost, so did the Red Sox, clinching the division for the Bombers. Steinbrenner had this to say: New York Yankees : Official Info : Press Release
My friend Karen Riner sent me this: Football & Blondes A guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game.They had great seats right behind their team’s bench. After the game,he asked her how she liked the experience. "Oh, I really liked it," she replied, "especially the tightpants and all the big muscles, but … Read more
Here’s the story of Sister Leonella, the Italian nun shot down in Somalia – coincidentally shortly after the controversy about the Pope’s Islam comment erupted. Michelle Malkin: This what a real martyr looks like
Saw Dr. Chia today at Sloan Kettering in Sleepy Hollow. The white blood cell count continues (very stubbornly) to stay low. So I had a shot of neulasta, the white cell booster. I asked her how long after chemo ends before the counts get back to normal and she said "It depends." So I said … Read more
Many people will remember Nick Springer – who around 1999 at the age of about 14 developed a rare form of meningitis. The result was horrific. Nick developed gangrene in all four of his limbs and had to have amputations of his legs below the knee, and his arms below the elbow. However he has … Read more
I will be in Boston on business until Tuesday night. I have a real interesting posting which I will put up when I get back. Unfortunately the Yanks were swept today by Boston (second game just ended) so the "magic number" stays at four.
I went down with a total of about a dozen people from my parish to the Central Park “Rally for Darfur” that was going on simultaneously in about forty-five other cities. I think there may have been eight to ten thousand people there. Here are some pictures – first the podium and the diamond vision … Read more
Here are two blonde jokes. The first is a "smart" blonde joke and was sent to me by my friend Thea. The second is a "dumb" blonde joke, sent by Ellen. So here’s the smart blonde: A blonde walks into a bank in New York City and asks to see the loan officer. She says … Read more