If she fell backwards it doesn't take too much of a crack on the back of the head to cause serious brain damage.

Bummer! The Parkway Theater in Oakland is closing. I loved that place. Saw Rocky Horror there and Jailhouse Rock and a few others. I know, I know, I'm not there any more, but just know that it is going to be gone is sad making.

I thought blood could only be stored for a certain amount of time?

It's cryopreservation, so whatever it is they think they'll be able to use it for, it's not needed fresh.

Oh, I'm sad about the Parkway, too, despite no longer living there!

Suzi, I am so sad too. I'm going to see Let the Right One In on Sunday at 8:45. Does 'Suela check Bitches? I should invite her.

Oy. I'm going over some of my health insurance stuff. My insurance is refusing to cover anything that's a "congenital condition." Which, for me, means pretty much everything ever except occasional sinus infections. Those get covered, but those are $10 visits to the clinic.

Re: Natasha Richardson - it's not at all unheard of for closed head trauma victims to get up and walk away, only to fall into a coma and die hours or even days later. I suspect her unhelmeted head bounced off a snow covered rock or even just a hard patch of ground.

I thought blood could only be stored for a certain amount of time?

Yes, if you want it to act like blood. Cord blood has a form of blood-making stem cells in it, so if the child or a sibling later got something like leukemia, the stem cells could be used to treat it. It's kept frozen like embryos.

As a person with an uneasy relationship with gravity, I find the Natasha Richardson story unnerving.

Yay, endocrinologist! That's pretty fast, as these things go, and I suspect that may be the answer.

I'm back from the doctor's office with round three of antibiotics for the Sinus Infection That Will Not Die, this time with extra added prednisone. If this doesn't work, I get to have a head CT and be sent to an ENT doctor. This doctor at least agreed with Dr. Google's diagnosis that my very painful mouth is a form of candida and prescribed at antifungal medication. Too bad the previous doctor didn't believe me; this thing might have been gone a month ago. She was running late and it took about two hours to get in. When I mentioned that the other doctor blew me off, she said very dryly, "But he's always on time."

I'm a mess. I'm beginning to think longingly about the idea of a therapeutic coma.

People actually eat peeps? I learn somethin' new every day here!

The only reason I DON'T eat Peeps is because CERTAIN PEOPLE think they turn me into a sugar-crazed and incoherent loony.

S'mores made with very dark chocolate and Peeps are very yummy. Plus, you get the fun of setting Peeps on fire!

The WaPo's second annual Peeps Show: [link]

Plus, you get the fun of setting Peeps on fire!

Probably something else CERTAIN ADORABLE PEOPLE wouldn't want to encourage.