Happy Birthday!

The Little Prince recently celebrated his third birthday. He continues to be a source of joy to all those around him.

A great fan of things that go -

Happy Birthday, little one!

What are we hoping for? The opposite thereof

"Poor Lilly! Europe to her was all 'things'. She had collected trunks full of objects to carry home, but of the other collections, which do not go into trunks, she had little or none. Her mind was as empty, her heart as untouched as ever; the beauty and the glory and the pathos of art and history and Nature had been poured out in vain before her closed and indifferent eyes."

What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge

Old Baldy Top gets sick.

Old Baldy Top is working hard and getting sick.

I contracted the flu virus or something like it yesterday and came home really sick.

Please pray for me. I have medicine now after seeing doctor today and am hoping to make full recovery soon.

Hairy

Last fall Leora said that she would be Hairy's mother. With Lepidoptera's help, Leora took good care of Hairy until he made a cocoon to overwinter in. This very week something told Hairy that it was time to emerge. Thankfully Leora noticed him Thursday morning, and so we postponed breakfast for Hairy's release.

Now Hairy is a moth, and it turns out that he is a girl (the antennae determine the gender for moths) so Leora renamed her Polly. We took Polly outside and left her container open so that she could leave when ready. We checked on her a couple of times that day and by evening she had flown the coop.

We are now waiting and hoping that Tiger will come out of his chrysalis too.

Florida in February

Warmer weather, time with friends, and a church meeting - all good reasons to go to FL in February, and so we did. While we were there, our family enjoyed the Orlando Science Center. Where else can you pick oranges,

fly an airplane,

learn about robots,

invent,

build,

see dinosaurs up close and personal,

and be an archeologist all in one day?

A growing girl

Leora is good at explaining things. To me. How things ought to be. Just today Leora said that she was going to find out how tall she was now. With her hand, she measured, "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Mommy, now I am ten pounds!".

Relationships

Leora: Sarah, you're my BEST friend!
Sarah, the older and somewhat wiser: Leora, you can't be friends with your SISTER.

Lepidoptera then steps in to enlighten Sarah that yes, sisters CAN and even ought to be friends.

Ever thankful and never the same

In regards to oncocytic variant of follicular thyroid carcinoma, (AKA Hurthle cell carcinoma), this is a potentially extremely aggressive tumor and has, in a number of patients, been responsible for their deaths. It is not uncommon that I am sent patients with their Hurthle cell thyroid cancers widely metastatic throughout their body, yet their original tumor pathology had been characterized as "minimally invasive". The minimal standard of care for such tumors is to have a TOTAL thyroidectomy, followed by appropriate and diligent radioiodine ablation and long-term followup scanning, in addition to thyroglobulin assessments and anatomical imaging at appropriate intervals (see message #2552).

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