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Friday, February 16
Requiem for Fred
The lab tests came back on Fred, the tiny piglet that was removed from my elbow. Apparently "angioleiomyoma" must be Latin for elbow pig, which I didn't think they had back in ancient Rome, but there you have it. The specimen includes a well-circumscribed nodule within which there are ectatic vascular spaces lined by plump endothelial cells. Peripheral to these vascular spaces there are cells having spindled, somewhat-blunt ended nuclei in this eosinophilic cytoplasms.I always knew Fred was well-circumscribed. Aren't all tiny elbow piglets? What all that really translates to is this: the lab enjoyed the tiniest bacon they'll ever have. And I can keep the rest of my elbow.  Labels: health '; } else { if(stristr($filename,"archive")) { $dir=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; $template='_01_archive.html'; $tail=strlen($template); $thisArchive=$filename; //$files=scandir($dir); $dh = opendir($dir); while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) { $files[] = $filename; } sort($files); $earlyarch=""; $laterarch=""; $prevarch=""; $next=0; foreach($files as $file) { if (substr($file,-$tail)==$template) { if ($next==1) { $laterarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; $next=0; } if ($file==$thisArchive) { $next=1; } else { $prevarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; } } } $link=''; $divider=''; if(file_exists($earlyarch)) { $link='< Earlier Archive'; $divider=" | "; } if(file_exists($laterarch)) { $link=$link.$divider.'Later Archive >'; } $link=$link.' '; } } echo($link); ?> |