Congrats are in order

For a stellar 2007 Allan….for becoming an international racewalker. Annette…for becoming a personal trainer. Bob…..for pulling a pair of crazy 50 mile stunts. Brad….for running over 1600 miles. Cris……for never giving up. Dan…..for being simply a great racewalker. Dave….for having the best job on the planet . Francis ….for edging ever closer to Boston. John….. [...]

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Winstons first Christmas

Happy Holidays from San Francisco Related Posts:Happy Holidays!Canadian style lunch with a cat from outer spaceMy stress reliever It’s officialChristmas Kitties

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Didn’t care for Xolair

After taking Xolair injections for a full 12 months, the verdicts in…..It’s not helping me. In fact, I’ve been sicker this year than in most. We gave it a good try, but at a thousand dollars a pop, I can’t really can’t justify continuing the injections. It’s one of those drugs that seems to work [...]

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Thank You Kirsty Mac Coll

I heard one of Kirstys songs on the soundtrack of a Brittish movie that I was watching the other night. Had such a great Latin rhythm. I liked it so much, I went out the next day and bought one of her CDs. ” Tropical Brainstorm” brilliant.How on earth did I ever miss this genius!(Here [...]

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Multi-tasking

Nebulizer treatment and massage

When you spend as much time behind a nebulizer as I do, you learn to put that time to good use. A back massage, reading a good

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Post op

As promised, here are two of the lesser gross pictures of yesterdays bone graft surgery. You can see how swollen the gum is around the implant .After scraping out the area, he filled it with synthetic bone and tightened it all up with 12 sutures. As soon as the local anesthetic wore off , it [...]

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Take care of your teeth !!!

Just as my marathon training is getting into full swing again, I’m already forced to take an unexpected break. No, it’s not asthma this time…. it’s my teeth. To give you a little background on my dental woes; about 5 years ago they reconstructed my entire upper mouth by installing synthetic teeth attached to dental [...]

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Picks for 2008

1) Maratona Della Citta Di Roma (March 16th) A beautiful ancient city and a marathon together? What more could you ask for! 2) E.T. Full Moon Midnight Marathon (August 17th) “Running along the fringe of the mysterious Area 51, this stretch of highway (375) has an overwhelming number of reported UFO sightings. So much so, [...]

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New asthma action plan

After a record number of admissions to the intensive care unit this year, (5 so far), it was pretty evident that my current asthma action wasn’t working anymore. So, at last weeks pulmonary clinic follow-up visit, we (they) came up with a new asthma action plan that will hopefully reduce that high number of ICU [...]

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