Monthly Archives: October 2020

CONTENT WARNING: LANGUAGE; VIOLENCE; FASCISM * * * * * More ‘rona dreams last night. Some were incredibly painful. Some were wondrous. In one, my little dog, Bozo, was still alive. Little Mister Sunshine, Mister Never Met A Stranger, Mister … Continue reading →

TRIGGER WARNING: SPIDERS, TARANTULAS, SPOOKY BUGS Monocentropus balfouri. M. Balfouri. Named after the first (European) guy to collect one: Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour (in 1897). They’re also called the Socotra Island Baboon. And the blue legged baboon. And that’s all … Continue reading →

Last week, when I left work on Thursday evening, we had 28 CoVid-19 positive patients. That’s 28 people whose CoVid-19 illness was severe enough to require hospitalization. That was 28 adult patients; zero pediatric patients. This afternoon, as of this … Continue reading →

Welp… it’s still a pandemic. Starting day after tomorrow, the hospital is tightening back down on visitors. No visitors in E.R., urgent care, or at appointments, unless the person is a caregiver. Only one parent in with pediatric patients. Everybody … Continue reading →

SARS-CoV-2 (ncov-2019): GLOBAL (37,648,597 cases, 1,079,621 dead); U.S. (7,977,660 cases, 219,600 dead); New Mexico (32,722 cases, 907 dead); Navajo Nation (10,675 cases, 565 dead). My wife and I were just talking on Friday morning about how the second wave was … Continue reading →