At Mata Ortiz, northern Mexico
Where all the expensive pottery comes from
Ah, November in Bellingham!
It is dark. The clouds are
scudding rapidly toward Canada. The wind
blows in formidable gusts, also toward Canada (natch). Earlier it was raining so hard that there
were waves of water running down the hill in front of my house
(literally). The cats are virtual
zombies. My monkey puzzle tree
courageously fights back against the wind, but I fear for its life.
AND HERE I WAIT, FOR THE BIRTH OF MY FIRST GREAT
GRANDSON!
To pass the time I have been trying for hours to figure out
how to post something I just wrote, about medical statistics. Yes, I really did intend to inflict it on
you: it is important, and I am in a bad
mood. But
I can’t. I had to hand draw some
illustrations. I can copy them to the
text. BUT WHEN I POST THE WHOLE THING TO
BLOGGER, THEY DISAPPEAR! I am going to
Carolyn’s house for Thanksgiving. No
doubt she knows some sophisticated trick to solve my problem. You’ll have to wait.
But not to waste a blog, I have found a reasonably
non-technical article on prevention of ovarian cancer. It was written by Dr Magnus Westgren, of the
prestigious Karolinska Institute of Stockholm.
I will give you the link at the end of this blog, if I remember.
In a nutshell, Dr. Westgren divides OVCA into two
types. Type I is relatively harmless
and, unfortunately, relatively rare.
Type II OVCA is lethal – and, most often, originates in the fallopian
tubes. Dr. W recommends they be removed,
especially in women with the BRCA 1 mutation.
He explains why he thinks as he does, but I didn’t understand everything
he writes. Maybe you will.
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