mustachio

At work we have a wall of gratitude and someone wrote:

"I am thankful for my family friends, and the opportunity to study at Biola.

Also mustaches."

i know its not even thanksgiving yet but i cant wait till CHRISTMAS!!!

this is what I get from watching a lot of House M.D.

Scenario:

A wife has sickle cell lung cancer (one of the worst kinds of cancer) but she's pregnant. She needs to get radiation treatment if she's going to have any chance of survival but she needs to get a C-section in order to not harm her baby. The baby, however, is only 28 weeks (premature). Its chance for survival is 80%. Now keep in mind that she has had 3 miscarriages before. Her desire and decision is to hold off one week to at least 29 weeks so that the baby will have up to 90% chance survival. However, if she waits one week, then she'll have 1/3 less of a chance to live. She wants to protect her baby so she sticks with her decision.

All of a sudden she gets a blood clot in her artery and needs to go through an immediate procedure in order to get it out. However, the drug that will be inserted in her body is harmful to the child. Because the mother is unconscious, the father makes a decision to put his wife's life priority over his child's.

The doctors get the clot out, but then she starts to go into respiratory arrest and her abdomen is bleeding internally. The baby needs to come out if it's going to survive. But because of her current condition, if a C-section is performed, she will most likely die. The father has a huge decision to make: either save his wife who has hardly no chance of living, or give permission fo r the C-section to save his baby.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?!

fasting for a while.

ohmy

7,000 people die a year from a pharmaceutical screw up.

and that doesn't even compare to doctor screw ups :/

anonymous

To The Anonymous Person(s):

I apologize for coming off super judgmental in my "asians" post. I really did not mean for it to come off that way. I guess I had just forgotten that other people, besides my friends, read my blog. Therefore, my style of writing was geared towards those who knew and understood me. And I'm glad you called me out on it because I believe that the church nowadays is lacking in confrontation (assuming that you are Christian). However, I do wish you didn't put yourself as Anonymous, I think it defeats the purpose of confrontation.

To clarify, I don't place any judgment on asians with colored contacts. I just don't understand why they do it. To me, it doesn't look attractive (which is why they wear it anyways). I do not like them any less because of it. The way I see it, why change something that God gave you; it really is a part of who you are.

Also, I was just basing my customer service opinion on my own observation and experiences. And those side comments about Koreans being prideful and Chinese being greedy, they're just stereotypes. But I do not love them any less because of the stereotypes either. (I am Asian, just in case you didn't know, and am actually very proud to be Asian.)

So all in all, thanks for pointing out my lack of clarification on the internet. However, I still stand by my opinions.

it's interesting how sensitive people are.

asians.

So, I don't understand why Asians wear colored contacts.
It's soooo tacky and unnatural. U G L Y. [you ain't got no alibi, you ugly]
Sorry. I mean it can look good, sometimes. But why?!!?!?!?!
It's almost like plastic surgery! I find that I'm uberly turned off by colored contacted asians.

Anyways. So one of my pet peeves is bad customer service. Asians totally fail at this.
Koreans are the worst [no offense Ricardo]. I believe it's due to their pride.
Chinese, from my observations, are a lot better. But I have a suspicion that it's due to their greed of money.
Indians are neutral. Some places they're great. Other's they're just okay. I haven't had a horrible experience with them yet.
Japanese are o k a y. Their sushi compensates for their "okay" service.

Let's just say I like Starbucks and In-N-Out for a reason besides that they're stuff is good.

Disclaimer. I don't bag on Asians all the time. And I'm not racist. It just so happens that this was crossing my mind tonight.