Teen diagnoses her own disease in science class – CNN.com.

This is the ultimate in being your own best advocate. When you can’t find answer, continue looking, even if you have to go it alone. I think it especially highlights the need for quality control measures in pathology and medicine. We are allowed to routinely get second opinions on major decisions, but what about when lab results yield little help?

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Raw food for pets? / Despite warnings by veterinarians, growing numbers of dog and cat owners are serving uncooked, homemade fare.

While there are real warnings to be heeded when feeding your pets a raw diet, including making sure that you follow appropriate protocols for food safety and avoiding poisonous foods, for the most part, feeding your pets a raw diet of biologically appropriate food can do wonders for their health. For some good information on raw feeding, visit:

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I am quirky; this my friends know. I have an affinity for the dentist’s office, hospitals, and needles. I don’t mind blood draws, I think hospitals smell nice, and I have a tendency to fall asleep while getting my teeth cleaned. I can’t help it, I am just stressed out enough and just enough of a hausfrau martyr that the only way I can relax is through forced confinement. Hospital stays are the only vacations I get from my kids, and the dentist’s chair, these days, is the closest I will get to a spa.

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When you live in my house, you get used to a lot of things. Things That Are Odd. I often say things I never thought I would have to say, or hear things I never expected to hear. Usually they are difficult to explain out of context, particularly to strangers.

I love my kids, they are such characters. My youngest boy is a very serious little fellow, he takes himself rather seriously. He is finally starting to grasp verbal communication and that is making him more friendly but he is definitely way more reserved, and frankly much more naughty, than his brother. He is the child who inherited all of Luna’s bad habits, like digging in the trashcan to look for sandwich crusts.

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