IgA
So much I've never heard of before. IgA is one.
This is normal: IgA component: 90 to 350 mg/dl.
I don't even know what this means.
But, here's a link to help with it all if your levels are out of the 'normal' range.
IgA levels and what they could mean.
How bad is MY perspective? My friend is facing the possibility of cancer, and my personal agony is over people I thought were friends who turned out to be back stabbers. Hmmmm. I should let go of my own things, because in the greater scheme of things, it's not all that important. And, this friend is one of those who isn't a backstabber, one who does stand by me.
My poor friend. She's SO scared. I would be, too. I hope her 2nd opinion tests show that the first doctor was mistaken!
Macroglobulinemia
Has anyone ever heard of it? My friend just sent me the link for this
International Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Foundation.
She was diagnosed with it today. She's trying to not be scared until she gets a 2nd (and 3rd and 4th) opinion.
Anyone have any experience with this?
Kissing
Okay. So, I saw this 'silly' article online about how people should learn to kiss and joked to someone that I should blog about it. But, now I can't remember where I found it. So, I googled it and found lots of 'how to kiss' pages.
And, you know what? If you don't just love to kiss, or if the one you're kissing doesn't seem to love to kiss you, maybe those articles aren't so silly! Hmmmmm.
So, if you're in the 'could benefit from a little instruction' category, read on ...
OMG, I think this one is in the learning how for the first time category. A
video instruction guide to kissing (including, and this almost seems sad! lol. "you'll be able to make boys weak in the knees, like Britney Spears. (Boys will learn to kiss so passionately that girls will think they're kissing Tom Cruise.)").
Now this one is for adults who want to improve their sex lives. It's an ad for a
tantra seminar, and it includes a seminar on "The lost art of kissing - 5 styles of erotic and esoteric kissing".
I bet no one skipped this class!
Tuesday 12/10/2002
The Art of Kissing
Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm
The Art of Kissing - Michael Christian. Lucky students! lol.
Penn State had the right idea! :) At least they gave the students something to look forward to!
This page bills itself as
America's number one supplier of kissing instruction.
I guess I was wrong. It wasn't a silly article. If there is a need (for people to learn how to kiss), then there should be a way to meet that need. Apparently there is a great demand for such instruction, and there are many who are filling that need by providing classes, seminars, books and videos.
Personally, I think pleasure in kissing has everything to do with how two people feel about each other and how they enjoy each other. I hope that the people who buy those books and videos do not depend entirely on the techniques they learn from the books and videos. I hope they only use them as a guide and let their connection to each other take them the rest of the way.
Disclaimer! (yikes, the gross stuff)
My views on kissing assume that both parties have excellent dental hygiene and are free of other substances or disorders that could detract from the pleasure in that activity. Sometimes I am two feet away from someone and imagine I might choke on the rotten smell coming from the person's mouth. And, I cannot imagine how the beloved of such a person can not have the same experience.
This round-about train of thought leads me to wish all readers the good fortune to have lovers with meticulous habits of dental hygiene, gastric systems that function correctly, an absence of oral substance abuse, and sweet and pleasing breath!
Very Interesting Interview With Betsy Israel
This is so interesting. I'm listening to an interview with Betsy Israel on my local NPR station.
Betsy Israel is so engaging in the interview. The book must be great.
Israel, Betsy. Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth
Century. Oct. 2002. 352p. illus. Morrow, $24.95 (0-380-97649-8).
Here's a link from Bachelor Girl by Betsy Israel
Chapter One - The Classical Spinster: Redundants, The Singly Blessed, And the Early New Women
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Happy 2003
I wanted to wish you good luck and link you to an October 2002 article in
Reader's Digest, but they don't seem to have the article online.
Instead, I'll just wish you good luck for 2003 and list the main points of the article.
"Lucky You - the 7 secrets of lucky people" (page 166, October 2002, Reader's Digest)
1. Assume fate is on your side.
2. Get an emotional grip.
3. Keep your mind open to opportunity.
4. Think of the world as yours.
5. Keep envy in check.
6. Think like a "connector".
7. Find an upside to everything.
"Luck starts with happiness... Stop, look, and listen ... Realize things could be worse ... Feel the bliss."
