Kat, this is what the cdc says: [link]

That's...unfortunate. It is a pretty good museum though.

Aside from the whole "vaccines have not been scientifically shown to correlate with autism" thing, they have thimerisol-free flu shots, which are standard at my Peds. For Noah, if it's not counter-indicated by anything else, definitely. (It's for 6 months and older, but I'm not sure how they count the 6 months with preemies? Where is he in routine immunizations?)

“Gentlemen, I have looked at your proposal, and it’s pure bullshit! Now you’ve had your meeting! Get out!”

If she really said this, I'm going to have to revise my vote for her from Holding My Nose to Punching The Little Punch-Hole With Wild Abandon And A Gleeful Grin.

My neighbor just called to tell me that Sarah, my neighbor with the Lyme disease was just taken to the hospital. She can't walk, and she keeps twitching. Strange disease.

Gods, Jesse, I'm so sorry. ~ma to your uncle and his family as they deal with their terrible loss.

Allyson, that's awful. Lyme Disease is so insidious. Catch it quick, totally curable. If it's not caught, though, it can morph into almost anything. I've seen it cause everything from mild arthritis to severe neurological impairment, and there doesn't seem to be a way to predict who will get what effect. shiver Another reason that I'm glad I don't live in Lyme tick central anymore. I hope that your neighbor recovers soon.

Doom doom doom doom....

The Future Is Drying Up

Doom doom doom (for those in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California) doom....

Over the past few decades, the driest states in the United States have become some of our fastest-growing; meanwhile, an ongoing drought has brought the flow of the Colorado to its lowest levels since measurements at Lee’s Ferry began 85 years ago. At the Senate hearing, Udall stated that the Colorado River basin is already two degrees warmer than it was in 1976 and that it is foolhardy to imagine that the next 50 years will resemble the last 50. Lake Mead, the enormous reservoir in Arizona and Nevada that supplies nearly all the water for Las Vegas, is half-empty, and statistical models indicate that it will never be full again. “As we move forward,” Udall told his audience, “all water-management actions based on ‘normal’ as defined by the 20th century will increasingly turn out to be bad bets.”

Jesse, that is scary... I'm glad your family is safe.

Flea, he was supposed to get his 6 month set last month but they fucked up. Instead he's getting them in two weeks. sigh. He's also doing synergis clinic for RSV.

There was a fabulous short apocalypticish story in Desert Exposure, which is a SW regional paper?mag? (periodical, anyway.) It was post Water Wars and there was a giant pipe that all the water was diverted into to prevent evaporation (I think it was all being sent to SoCal, but I don't recall exactly) and people would risk life and limb to steal water from it. It had Tamarisk in the title, I think.

NM and Texas have gone all the way to the Supreme Court over water. Wells on the east mesa of my hometown are starting to go dry (or rather, lose prime, which means they need to drill even deeper) as development continues to explode. It's going to get very ugly, and it isn't that far off.

We may peak water way before we peak oil.

Ugh. Day with much thinking. Also Monday. And with teaching tonight. I need to learn the word no.