inverse spices

[mamagotcha]

inverse spices
Originally uploaded by mamagotcha.

This just tickled me this morning.

If you're not a hopeless amateur food geek like me, that flaky stuff is
Cyprus black sea salt... the crystals are these cool tiny little
pyramids, and I'd pulled it out to sprinkle on the spoonful of sour
cream I'd just plopped on Bill's egg and veggie scramble.

And may I just say how happy I am that I'm married to a man who can
heartily shovel in his breakfast while enthusiastically discussing
things like surgery for a brain tumor that is discovered to be a
fetus in fetu midway through the procedure.

Comments

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Man, you don't want to know what Grandma used to talk about when Grandpa and I were eating. Did she do that to you when you were a kid?

(Also, that is seriously cool about the fetus.)

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

You saw that story? Hope the kid is okay...

He's gonna win EVERY SINGLE "my scar is cooler than yours" contest while growing up!

I don't think she brought her work home with her, but a few years of hanging out with midwives definitely raised my squick tolerances, at least as far as human bodies are concerned... things like rotten rats and other really stinky jobs get assigned to Bill with no questions. Yay biologists!

[jeffurrynpl.livejournal.com]

So far so good with the kid. I am positively addicted to tumor shows on Discovery Health!

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

There are television programs about TUMORS?! Like, a SERIES? Holy teratogens, I might have to rethink this no-TV stance...

[jeffurrynpl.livejournal.com]

I don't know about a series, but there is a channel that has a lot of mini-documentaries about such topics as fetus in fetu, "I Am My Own Twin" (one person with two sets of DNA), calcified fetuses, extremely heavy tumors, progeria, extremely tall people, etc. Discovery Health. I can't turn away!

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of fetus in fetu. That's truly fascicreepinating.

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

I have a thing for twins anyway. I cannot WAIT to visit the Mütter Museum someday. We're planning a road trip out east this spring, hmm...

[lunacow]

Have you seen "Twin Falls Idaho"? It's a pretty cool movie about conjoined twins.

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

I know of it, I just haven't gotten to it. Yay, Netflix! And thanks for the reminder!

[stegenrae.livejournal.com]

hadn't seen the brain tumor fetus in fetu program. i've seen one about a middle-eastern boy with an abdominal growth that turned out to be an abnormally large and mature fetus in fetu. i am fascinated by the topic and the TERM, which strangely pops into my head every couple days since seeing that program over 3 years ago. (hence, my compulsion to comment here...)

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

It's not a program. It's a kid in Denver, and it happened just a few months ago, I think.

Seems like the kid's gonna be OK after the surgery. My guess, after seeing the photo and the size of the tip of the probe, is that the "tumor" was actually pretty damned tiny.

[2006in2006.livejournal.com]

Since I'm the one who pointed the story out to K, here is a link to the original story. The link to the photo is about halfway down the article.