Bust Out the Tissues

I know it's Friday, and I normally like to keep things upbeat around here, but I couldn't help it today. Hubby showed me this story late last night and I had to post it in the hopes that I have good friends and readers who will spread the word.

Five-year-old Noah Biorkman is celebrating Christmas this weekend. He was diagnosed two years ago with Stage IV neuroblastoma (the most common type of childhood cancer). He went into remission, but relapsed last fall. He's not expected to make it to Christmas, but told his parents he wanted Christmas cards. They decided that they're going to celebrate this weekend.

So send your Christmas cards!!! Hubby and I are sending one, he's taking one to work for everyone to sign, and I have plenty of others if anyone is interested (I can come by work if you want, mom). It's such a little thing to do today. And if it makes a little boy happy, why not do it? Seriously, take a couple minutes today and send Noah a card. Then count your blessings if you have healthy children at home.

Send cards to:
Noah Biorkman
1141 Fountain View Circle
South Lyon, MI 48178

Halloween Week! Thursday...

ZOMBIES!!!

Sorry mom, that's what this post is about. You had to know it was coming. I mean, Claudia and I took off on a zombie tangent last week.

So, take me seriously or not people, but a zombie outbreak could totally happen. Scoff if you want, navigate away, call me crazy. But it could totally happen.

Hubby found this article last week. Okay, let's just start with my issue with the phrase "cheating death." If God wants you dead, you will be dead. Period. But what the article gets at is that by using hydrogen sulfide, you can suspend a body in it's current state. The body systems don't shut down, they just stop. Think of all those movies and television shows you've seen where a character just stops time and everything freezes. It's like that.

Now people might argue, "Oh, but if it's tested right and used correctly, it can totally save lives! What about an accident victim that could have survived if there had been just one more hour for the surgeons/rescuers involved?" And I get that scientists are seeing the benefits of this. But hubby and I discussed how this could totally lead to a zombie outbreak.

(This is the part where you laugh because my husband and I sit and ponder the possibilities of zombies and other such things that are thought of as ridiculous.)

The problem is that you are stopping a body, then reanimating it (a.k.a. bringing it back to life) at your command. Cells are shutting down. The door is wide open for some "freak happenstance" where the person is brought back, but their cells continue to not function. No breathing and normal life necessary. They would be a living dead person.

See? Zombies.

Okay, you could argue that it would be closer to immortality than actual zombies. But I choose to go with zombies. Because with this drug still being experimental there are all kinds of ways for trials to go wrong. Who knows? There may be side effects. Like a strange craving for brains...

Freak Mutant Thing From Hell!

Just got wind of this news story and thought it would be fun and appropriate for Halloween week. Apparently Australia has got a bit of a shark problem on their hands...

A 20-foot shark??? Did you SEE the bite it took out of that other shark? That's insane! Don't go in the water...

And if you can't watch the video (because your workplace is lame or something), here's a pic of the 10-foot shark that was nearly bitten in half by the lurking monstrosity.