Blood Moon Rising (and other bad cultural references)

Noooooo, not the chopstick treatment!

As you cannot see in this photo, the hair continues to disappear.  Heidi has a distinct male pattern baldness going on.  It is making her look more like her brother all the time.  Actually, she's a dead ringer for her Uncle Larry too.  No, not Larry from the Three Stooges.

My hair continues to grow everywhere, dammit.  How is it fair that hair starts growing in new places at the same time that my eyes cannot focus well enough to trim it successfully? 

Enough about hair?  Let's talk white blood counts.  Groucho Marx said a corpuscle is a thing that rushes from your heart to your feet, gets a look at those feet and rushes back to the heart.  Chico corrected him and said the corpuscle comes after captain and lieutenant.  The white corpuscle is what crushed the bad guy in Fantastic Voyage as Raquel Welch grimaced in her space-age unitard.  Mostly I just remember Raquel in her space-age unitard.  I could be wrong about other details.  The white blood cells (corpuscles) are the disease-fighting agents.  I can say that confidently even having never played a doctor on TV and being shot down trying to play a fake doctor at the clinic.  I can also say I am out of popular culture movie references to white blood cells.

Robin's Bday Party at Benihana

Heidi's white blood count (WBC) was 0.08 thou/uL a week ago.  Since then it's gone to 0.11, 0.18, 0.17, 0.21, 0.36, 0.43 and today was at 0.65.  That's progress.  The normal range is 4.3-10, so she is far from normal (you can say that again!), but progressing in that direction. 

Her platelets (the applesauce mixture she received IV two weeks ago) went from a low last week of 15 thou/uL to 58 this morning.  Normal platelet count is 150-400.  Need I say again she is far from normal?  Perhaps it's because her platelets were from someone named Abbie Normal (I'm not completely out of movie references!). 

This morning there were boats and planes on Lake Union.  I set the video camera on the window sill and worked on my computer for 30 minutes.  Because nobody will sit through a 30-minute video of water, I compressed it down to 28 seconds.  Call it the ADD video cut of Lake Union.

On the bone marrow registry front, Tama joined the legion of cheek swabbers recently.  Yay Tama!