Anybody who has researched airfares on the web has experienced the frustration of not only trying to figure out if they have found the cheapest fare or not, but also of deciding whether there’s any chance the fare will get cheaper or not. Farecast tries to solve this problem. When you research fares on Farecast, […]
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So I think buying human embryos is fraught with moral and ethical issues but what about human eggs? This article seems to think it’s unethical because the program that buys eggs (for stem cell research) might exploit poor women. There are two issues that are getting mixed up here: buying a human body part buying
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what I want to do with my life and I had another ah-hah moment this weekend. I spent the whole weekend with Caleb in the hospital and it didn’t bother me at all – once they figured out that Caleb was going to be ok that is. I
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We’re home and Caleb is doing well! His crib mattress is at a 45 degree angle and he has his own humidifier.
We’re two hours into the four hour test – can Caleb maintain his oxygen levels without supplemental oxygen? If he can, we’ll be going home in two hours! Yeah!
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We had kind of a rough night. Caleb was doing good on 1/4 L at midnight so they decided to slowly turn down the oxygen overnight. (They were trying to get us home today!) Only they didn’t tell me. So in the wee hours of the morning I couldn’t figure out why his oxygen levels
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10:21pm. We are back down to 1/2 liter of oxygen and looking good! Caleb spent the last couple of hours eating a ton (well, compared to the last couple of days anyway) and playing and talking.
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They got his oxygen down to 1/4 liter this afternoon. (They turned it down little by little and then waited to see if his numbers held steady.) But we had to turn it back up to a 3/4 liter this evening because his heart rate jumped back up to the 200s and his oxygen went
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Caleb is doing much better today. He slept all night, ate 5 ounces in one sitting and woke up "talking" like he normally does. His heart rate has also come down a lot. We even got a couple of smiles out of him today. (He’s been playing and interactive most of the time but no
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In case you are wondering where we are – Frank and I are camped out with Caleb in a hospital room this weekend. Caleb has Respiratory Syncytial Virus, RSV for short since I haven’t even figured out how to pronounce it yet. For most of us this would be just a common cold but for